Toxicity of biorational insecticides: activity against the green peach aphid, Myzus persicae (Sulzer)

Pest Manag Sci. 2002 Mar;58(3):255-60. doi: 10.1002/ps.444.

Abstract

The relationship between dose for each of four biorational insecticides (pyrethrins, neem extract, capsiacin extract, insecticidal soap) and mortality of the green peach aphid (Myzus persicae) was determined using a laboratory bioassay. These insecticides were toxic to aphids and paired mixtures of the insecticides provided synergistic activity as measured by aphid mortality under the laboratory bioassay conditions. Capsiacin extracts were found to provide low levels of mortality alone but acted synergistically in mixtures with the other insecticides and provided higher than expected levels of mortality. Activity as determined in the laboratory for each insecticide was not evident under field-use conditions in five separate experiments. Under field conditions and using common application methods, these insecticides did not provide significant levels of control of aphids.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Agriculture
  • Animals
  • Aphids / drug effects*
  • Biological Assay
  • Capsaicin / administration & dosage
  • Capsaicin / toxicity
  • Drug Synergism
  • Insecticides / administration & dosage
  • Insecticides / toxicity*
  • Laboratories
  • Lethal Dose 50
  • Limonins*
  • Pest Control, Biological / methods*
  • Pyrethrins / administration & dosage
  • Pyrethrins / toxicity
  • Soaps / administration & dosage
  • Soaps / toxicity
  • Triterpenes / administration & dosage
  • Triterpenes / toxicity

Substances

  • Insecticides
  • Limonins
  • Pyrethrins
  • Soaps
  • Triterpenes
  • azadirachtin
  • Capsaicin