A randomized block experiment was conducted in cabbage fields at Texas Agriculture Experiment Station at Weslaco in the spring and fall 2005 and spring 2006. There were four blocks and two pesticide treatments, spinosad (SpinTor®), lambda- cyhalothrin (Warrior®), and an untreated control. The pesticide treatments were for the management of Plutella xylostella L. (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae) and Trichoplusia ni (Hubner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Pitfall traps captured eight families of spiders in fall 2005, and thirteen families in spring 2006. The most abundant family was Lycosidae with Pardosa delicatula (Gertsch and Wallace) followed by Pardosa pauxilla (Montgomery) and Hogna helluo (Walckenaer) in fall 2005, while in spring 2006 Hogna helluo was most abundant followed by Pardosa delicatula and Pardosa pauxilla. The diversity of spiders in fall 2006 in the lambda-cyhalothrin plots was lower than that of spiders found in the untreated control or the spinosad treated plots, which were up to 2.6 and 2.4 times, respectively, more diverse. In spring 2006, the spiders in untreated control and spinosad treated plots were 1.5 and 1.3 times respectively more diverse than spiders in the lambda-cyhalothrin treated plots. In fall 2005, mean diversity of spiders in spinosad treated plots was 1.1 times more diverse than in the untreated control, although this difference was not statistically significant. In spring 2006, spinosad treated plots had 1.2 times greater diversity than untreated control and this difference was significant. The effects of two insecticide treatments on height, width, and weight of cabbages were highly significant in all three seasons. Cabbage harvest in spinosad and lambda- cyhalothrin plots showed greater height, width, and weight than in untreated control but were not different from each other. However, in the larval damage rating, spinosad treatment showed better management of diamondback moth and cabbage looper than lambda- cyhalothrin.

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My thesis is devoted to the resistance of pollen beetle (Meligethes aeneus, son. Brassicogethes aeneus Fabricius, 1775) to pesticides in selected localities in southern Moravia. Collecting adults was performed in the spring of 2013 by tapped into polyethylene bags. Adults are collected from the stands of oilseed rape, mustard and poppy. Tests were performed on the basis of the methodology of Insecticide Resistance Action Committee number 011, 021, 025. In total, we tested the pollen population from 18 locations. For testing, we used the following chemical substances: Biscaya 240 OD, cypermethrin, lambda-cyhalothrin, tau-fluvalinate, etofenprox, chlorpyrifos(ethyl). We evaluated 100% of the registered dose of pesticides after 24 hours. From the results of the individual populations, we found large differences in resistance to chemicals.

Resistence population of pollen beattle on selected locations of Moravia and Silesia were observed during the 2017. Beattles were taked off in the field during spring and their sensitivity to insecticides active substances indoxacarb, chlorpyrifos, thiacloprid, tau-fluvalinate, cypermethrin and lambda-cyhalothrin were tested in laboratory. Tested using methods of IRAC – 11, 21, 25 and 27. Mortality of beattles at various concentrations of active substances was evaluated after 24 hours. Levels of resistance were changed for individual location.

The Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus (Skuse), is a worldwide nuisance pest that is capable of vectoring several viruses of public health concern. This invasive mosquito has recently expanded its habitable range through its utilization of artificial breeding sites, often due to the activity of humans. These factors, combined with additional expansion due to global changes in climate, have led to invigorated efforts to mitigate the impact of Ae. albopictus. Because it is a diurnal species, standard mosquito control efforts utilizing spray trucks or planes to administer insecticides offer little control, as these methods are directed towards crepuscular species. Barrier spray applications, however, have been shown to achieve a significant reduction in local mosquito pressure while requiring less insecticide application. The design behind barrier sprays is to apply insecticide treatments only around areas of interest, instead of trying to eradicate the local population of mosquitoes. These studies were conducted to evaluate the efficacy of different pyrethroid barrier treatments against Ae. albopictus mosquitoes, and to examine the impact of the most effective treatment on local mosquito populations when applied to suburban residences. Three pyrethroids were examined in these studies: Demand® CS (lambda-cyhalothrin), Talstar® Professional (bifenthrin), and Suspend® Polyzone® (deltamethrin). The following factors affecting pyrethroid barrier treatments showed significant impacts on the knockdown and mortality rates of Ae. albopictus mosquitoes: the plant species, the label rate at which treatments were applied, the active ingredient used in the treatment applications, the time of exposure to the treated foliage, the presence/absence of a blood meal in the mosquito, and the time after treatment. Demand CS treatments showed the highest proportions of knockdown and mortality in adult female Ae. albopictus mosquitoes and did so for the longest amount of time, regardless of the length of the exposure time. Because the Demand CS formulation of lambda-cyhalothrin was shown to be the most effective treatment in the previous studies, it was applied as a barrier treatment to suburban residences in Roanoke, Virginia, in a field trial. Applications of Demand CS as a barrier spray were shown to significantly reduce mosquito catch numbers inside the treated barrier throughout the 8 week study, as compared to the control properties. The findings of these studies indicate that many factors, pertaining to both the insecticides used and to the environment in which they are applied, play a role in influencing the efficacy of a pyrethroid barrier treatment for the control of Aedes mosquitoes. Thus, it is important to gather relevant information before the application of a barrier spray treatment to design the most appropriate program for the situation. / Doctor of Philosophy / Mosquitoes in Virginia are capable of transmitting many different diseases to humans and livestock. Many different treatment options are available to protect humans from these populations of mosquitoes. Some of these options can be performed for a whole community, such as area-wide fogging or treatments from truck-mounted sprayers, while others are applied to properties individually, like mosquito misting systems or barrier sprays. Applying long-lasting insecticides to the edge of an area can help to protect the inside of the area from mosquitoes, and this is called barrier spraying. Barrier sprays, in particular, have become a popular choice for homeowners, and they are successful at limiting human exposure to local mosquito populations. The experiments conducted here looked at three different insecticides used in these treatments and compared them for their ability to inhibit and kill Asian tiger mosquito. Other factors that potentially influenced effectiveness were examined, such as the plant type, the length of time since the treatment was applied, and whether or not the mosquito had taken a blood meal. These experiments examined three commonly used pyrethroid insecticides to determine their efficacy against the local Asian tiger mosquito. Suspend Polyzone lasted a long time but did not produce sufficient mortality, Talstar Professional killed large numbers of mosquitoes, but for a short period, and Demand CS lasted a long time and showed a high mortality rate. These studies showed that the three different insecticides lasted on the plants for different amounts of time, but also that the insecticides needed different amounts of contact time to kill mosquitoes. This information is essential because understanding how a treatment loses effectiveness over time can help with deciding when retreatment is needed. It was also found that the different insecticides were affected by the plants that they were sprayed onto, meaning that certain insecticides did better when sprayed on specific plants. Results from these studies revealed that Asian tiger mosquitoes that had just fed on human blood were more likely to die from insecticide treatments. Thus, even if a mosquito should bite an infected person, barrier spray treatments of their property will lower the chances that the mosquito can spread the disease to other people.

Os piretróides sintéticos, em especial os do tipo II, como a cialotrina, são extensivamente utilizados para o controle de uma ampla variedade de ectoparasitas que acometem os animais de produção. Entretanto, no Brasil e em outros países, sua utilização vai além da saúde animal, sendo utilizados também em saúde pública, no controle de diversos vetores, como é o caso do vetor da dengue, dentre outros. Visto que a cialotrina modifica a atividade de macrófagos peritoneais, o objetivo deste trabalho foi investigar os prováveis mecanismos através dos quais este piretróide modifica a atividade destas células. Os presentes resultados, analisados em seu conjunto, mostram de maneira inequívoca que a cialotrina tem um efeito direto e/ou indireto sobre a atividade de macrófagos peritoneais. Especificamente, observou-se neste trabalho que o praguicida causou em ratos: 1 ? marcação fos positiva em neurônios do núcleo paraventricular do hipotálamo (NPH), após a dose de 3,0 mg/kg/dia; 2 - diminuição do percentual e intensidade de fagocitose de macrófagos peritoneais ativados e avaliados por citometria de fluxo; 3 - diminuição dose-dependente da produção de nitrito (NO2); 4 ? diminuição do percentual e intensidade de fagocitose de macrófagos peritoneais ativados, em ratos adrenalectomizados e/ou tratados com metirapona (inibidor da síntese de corticosterona) e RU 486 (antagonista de receptores glicocorticóides) com a finalidade de modular os níveis de glicocorticóides, e tratados com 3,0 mg/kg/dia de cialotrina; 5 ? aumento dos níveis de noradrenalina hipotalâmica em animais tratados com a dose de 3,0mg/kg/dia de cialotrina; 6 - diminuição do percentual e intensidade de fagocitose, bem como diminuição da produção de nitrito de macrófagos peritoneais ativados, em ratos simpatectomizados químicamente com 6-OHDA; 7 - diminuição dose dependente do percentual e intensidade de fagocitose, bem como da produção de nitrito de macrófagos peritoneais ativados e tratados in vitro com 10 e 100 nM de cialotrina. No entanto, não observamos: 1 ? alterações na produção de nitrito realizada por macrófagos peritoneais ativados, em ratos adrenalectomizados e/ou tratados com metirapona e RU 486; 2 - alterações na viabilidade celular induzida pelo tratamento in vitro com a cialotrina na concentração de 10 e 100 nM e 3 ? alterações nos efeitos da cialotrina sobre a atividade de macrófagos tratados in vitro com os ligantes de receptores benzodiazepínicos periféricos. Em conjunto, os presentes dados mostram que a cialotrina interfere com a atividade de macrófagos por atuar indiretamente, através da ativação do eixo Hipotálamo-Hipófise-Adrenal (HHA), e/ou diretamente sobre os mesmos modulando sua atividade. É muito provável que o efeito resultante do tratamento in vivo com este praguicida esteja ligado à somatória destas ações / Synthetic pyrethroids, particularly those of type II, such as cyhalothrin, are extensively used in agriculture for the control of a broad range of ectoparasites in farm animals. However, in Brazil and some other countries, these pyrethroids have also been used in public health, for the control of insects that are known to be vectors of diseases such as dengue. Since it has been suggested that cyhalothrin alters activity of peritoneal macrophages, the objective of our study was to investigate the putative mechanisms for the changes induced by pyrethroid in these cells. The results presented here show, in an unequivocal manner, that cyhalothrin has a direct or indirect (or both) effect on the activity of peritoneal macrophages. We specifically observed in this work that this pesticide induced in rats: 1- Fos-positive immunostaining in neurons of the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (NPH), after 3.0 mg/kg/day; 2 ? a reduction in the percentage and intensity of phagocytosis by activated peritoneal macrophages, evaluated by flow cytometry; 3 ? a dose-dependent reduction in nitrite production (NO2); 4 ? a reduction in the percentage and intensity of phagocytosis by activated peritoneal macrophage from adrenalectomized rats treated or not with metirapone (inhibitor of corticosterone synthesis) or RU 486 (antagonist of glicocorticoids receptors) with the propose of modulating the levels of glicocorticoids, and treated with 3.0 mg/kg/day of cyhalothrin; 5 ? an increase in the hypothalamic levels of noradrenaline in rats treated with 3.0 mg/kg/day of cyhalothrin; 6 ? a reduction in the percentage and intensity of phagocytosis and also a decrease in the production of nitrite by activated peritoneal macrophages, after chemical sympatectomy with 6-OHDA; 7 ? a dose-dependent reduction of the percentage and intensity of phagocytosis, and also a decrement in nitrite production by activated peritoneal macrophages treated in vitro with 10 and 100 nM of cyhalothrin. However, we found no differences on: 1 ? nitrite production by activated peritoneal macrophages after adrenalectomy, treated or not with metirapone or RU 486; 2 ?cell viability of peritoneal macrophages treated in vitro with 10 and 100 nM of cyhalothrin, and 3 ? the effects of cyhalothrin on macrophage activity after in vitro treatment with peripheral benzodiazepine receptor ligands. Altogether, the present results show that cyhalothrin interferes with the activity of peritoneal macrophages by acting indirectly, via activation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis, or directly on these cells, altering their activity. As a matter of fact, it is quite possible that the results of in vivo cyhalothrin treatment on macrophage activity would be related to the combined effect of these direct and indirect influences

Os piretróides sintéticos, em especial os do tipo II, como a cialotrina, são extensivamente utilizados para o controle de uma ampla variedade de ectoparasitas que acometem os animais de produção. Entretanto, no Brasil e em outros países, sua utilização vai além da saúde animal, sendo utilizados também em saúde pública, no controle de diversos vetores, como é o caso do vetor da dengue, dentre outros. Visto que a cialotrina modifica a atividade de macrófagos peritoneais, o objetivo deste trabalho foi investigar os prováveis mecanismos através dos quais este piretróide modifica a atividade destas células. Os presentes resultados, analisados em seu conjunto, mostram de maneira inequívoca que a cialotrina tem um efeito direto e/ou indireto sobre a atividade de macrófagos peritoneais. Especificamente, observou-se neste trabalho que o praguicida causou em ratos: 1 ? marcação fos positiva em neurônios do núcleo paraventricular do hipotálamo (NPH), após a dose de 3,0 mg/kg/dia; 2 - diminuição do percentual e intensidade de fagocitose de macrófagos peritoneais ativados e avaliados por citometria de fluxo; 3 - diminuição dose-dependente da produção de nitrito (NO2); 4 ? diminuição do percentual e intensidade de fagocitose de macrófagos peritoneais ativados, em ratos adrenalectomizados e/ou tratados com metirapona (inibidor da síntese de corticosterona) e RU 486 (antagonista de receptores glicocorticóides) com a finalidade de modular os níveis de glicocorticóides, e tratados com 3,0 mg/kg/dia de cialotrina; 5 ? aumento dos níveis de noradrenalina hipotalâmica em animais tratados com a dose de 3,0mg/kg/dia de cialotrina; 6 - diminuição do percentual e intensidade de fagocitose, bem como diminuição da produção de nitrito de macrófagos peritoneais ativados, em ratos simpatectomizados químicamente com 6-OHDA; 7 - diminuição dose dependente do percentual e intensidade de fagocitose, bem como da produção de nitrito de macrófagos peritoneais ativados e tratados in vitro com 10 e 100 nM de cialotrina. No entanto, não observamos: 1 ? alterações na produção de nitrito realizada por macrófagos peritoneais ativados, em ratos adrenalectomizados e/ou tratados com metirapona e RU 486; 2 - alterações na viabilidade celular induzida pelo tratamento in vitro com a cialotrina na concentração de 10 e 100 nM e 3 ? alterações nos efeitos da cialotrina sobre a atividade de macrófagos tratados in vitro com os ligantes de receptores benzodiazepínicos periféricos. Em conjunto, os presentes dados mostram que a cialotrina interfere com a atividade de macrófagos por atuar indiretamente, através da ativação do eixo Hipotálamo-Hipófise-Adrenal (HHA), e/ou diretamente sobre os mesmos modulando sua atividade. É muito provável que o efeito resultante do tratamento in vivo com este praguicida esteja ligado à somatória destas ações / Synthetic pyrethroids, particularly those of type II, such as cyhalothrin, are extensively used in agriculture for the control of a broad range of ectoparasites in farm animals. However, in Brazil and some other countries, these pyrethroids have also been used in public health, for the control of insects that are known to be vectors of diseases such as dengue. Since it has been suggested that cyhalothrin alters activity of peritoneal macrophages, the objective of our study was to investigate the putative mechanisms for the changes induced by pyrethroid in these cells. The results presented here show, in an unequivocal manner, that cyhalothrin has a direct or indirect (or both) effect on the activity of peritoneal macrophages. We specifically observed in this work that this pesticide induced in rats: 1- Fos-positive immunostaining in neurons of the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (NPH), after 3.0 mg/kg/day; 2 ? a reduction in the percentage and intensity of phagocytosis by activated peritoneal macrophages, evaluated by flow cytometry; 3 ? a dose-dependent reduction in nitrite production (NO2); 4 ? a reduction in the percentage and intensity of phagocytosis by activated peritoneal macrophage from adrenalectomized rats treated or not with metirapone (inhibitor of corticosterone synthesis) or RU 486 (antagonist of glicocorticoids receptors) with the propose of modulating the levels of glicocorticoids, and treated with 3.0 mg/kg/day of cyhalothrin; 5 ? an increase in the hypothalamic levels of noradrenaline in rats treated with 3.0 mg/kg/day of cyhalothrin; 6 ? a reduction in the percentage and intensity of phagocytosis and also a decrease in the production of nitrite by activated peritoneal macrophages, after chemical sympatectomy with 6-OHDA; 7 ? a dose-dependent reduction of the percentage and intensity of phagocytosis, and also a decrement in nitrite production by activated peritoneal macrophages treated in vitro with 10 and 100 nM of cyhalothrin. However, we found no differences on: 1 ? nitrite production by activated peritoneal macrophages after adrenalectomy, treated or not with metirapone or RU 486; 2 ?cell viability of peritoneal macrophages treated in vitro with 10 and 100 nM of cyhalothrin, and 3 ? the effects of cyhalothrin on macrophage activity after in vitro treatment with peripheral benzodiazepine receptor ligands. Altogether, the present results show that cyhalothrin interferes with the activity of peritoneal macrophages by acting indirectly, via activation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis, or directly on these cells, altering their activity. As a matter of fact, it is quite possible that the results of in vivo cyhalothrin treatment on macrophage activity would be related to the combined effect of these direct and indirect influences

Despite advances in mosquito management, mosquito-borne disease in the United States is still of relevant public health concern and vector control is a top priority in preventing transmission of pathogens. Insecticide barrier sprays have become a common tool for suppression of mosquitoes in single-homeowner backyards. The application of the synthetic pyrethroid, lambda-cyhalothrin to perimeter vegetation with a backpack sprayer has been shown to significantly suppress mosquito levels for around 6 weeks. In an attempt to lengthen the effective duration of treatment, the IGR, pyriproxyfen, was added to a backpack mist blower with lambda-cyhalothrin, as adult mosquitoes exposed to pyriproxyfen have been shown to disseminate it to oviposition sites and to experience lowered fecundity. This treatment was compared to lambda-cyhalothrin alone and to a water control. Mosquito populations were sampled using CO2-baited CDC light traps, CDC gravid traps, human landing rates, and ovitraps. Leaf bioassays were performed. The following summer, the same treatments were applied with a truck-mounted mist blower to tree lines in Central Kentucky, to test the efficacy of an application method that could be used on large properties. Finally, bioassays were performed with water sampled from pyriproxyfen-treated containers, exposed to field conditions to test for residual efficacy.

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