Mosquitoes are a serious threat to the society, acting as vector to several dreadful diseases.
Mosquito management programes profoundly depend on the routine of chemical …

The current state of knowledge regarding the effect of pesticides on insect immunity is
reviewed here. A basic understanding of these interactions is needed for several reasons …

Abstract Agrotis ipsilon (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is a major underground pest that damages
many agricultural crops in China and other countries. A diet-incorporation-based bioassay …

Beauveria bassiana, an entomopathogenic fungus, is the alternative biocontrol agent
exploited against major economic crop pests. Pieris brassicae L. is an emerging pest of the …

Plant secondary metabolites are currently known to interfere with basic metabolic,
behavioral and physiological processes of insects. In the current study, the biological and …

Abstract γ-Terpinene, a monoterpene widely present in essential oils of many medicinal and
aromatic plants with numerous biological properties, was evaluated for its insecticidal …

Recent years have witnessed heightened scrutiny of the non-target sublethal effects of
pesticides on behavioural and physiological traits of insects. Traditionally, attention has …

Endocrine system has a critical role during the developmental stages of insects by synthesis
of several regulatory hormones. One of these hormones is juvenile hormone that several …

The major constituents of the oil of Lavandula angustifolia Mill were estimated as borneoll
(8.57%), alpha terpinene (6.22%), linolool (4.91%) geranyl proprionate (3.76%), butanoic …

Larval toxicity of ethanolic extract of C. parvula (Ex-Cp) was prominent in the second and the
third instars at the maximum lethal dosage of 100 ppm with 98 and 97% mortality rate …