Contact Toxicity of Twenty Insecticides Applied to Symmerista canicosta1

Autor: Jacqueline L. Robertson, Nancy L. Gillette, Robert L. Lyon, Fay L. Shon
Rok vydání: 1972
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Zdroj: Journal of Economic Entomology. 65:1560-1562
ISSN: 1938-291X
0022-0493
DOI: 10.1093/jee/65.6.1560
Popis: Twenty insecticides were tested by topical application on mixed groups of 4th- and 5th-stage larvae of Symmerista canicosta Franclemont. Four exceeded DDT in toxicity at LD50, but only resmethrin was significantly more toxic. Most of the compounds showed unusually high toxicities. Twelve, listed in decreasing order of toxicity, caused 50% mortality with
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