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Achievements and new challenges for Entomologia Generalis.

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The sublethal effects of pesticides on beneficial arthropods.

Nicolas Desneux, Axel Decourtye, Jean-Marie Delpuech (2007)

Traditionally, measurement of the acute toxicity of pesticides to beneficial arthropods has relied largely on the determination of an acute median lethal dose or concentration. However, the estimated lethal dose during acute toxicity tests may only be a partial measure of the deleterious effects. In addition to direct mortality induced by pesticides, their sublethal effects on arthropod physiology and behavior must be considered for a complete analysis of their impact. An increasing number of studies and methods related to the identification and characterization of these effects have been published in the past 15 years. Review of sublethal effects reported in published literature, taking into account recent data, has revealed new insights into the sublethal effects of pesticides including effects on learning performance, behavior, and neurophysiology. We characterize the different types of sublethal effects on beneficial arthropods, focusing mainly on honey bees and natural enemies, and we describe the methods used in these studies. Finally, we discuss the potential for developing experimental approaches that take into account these sublethal effects in integrated pest management and the possibility of integrating their evaluation in pesticide registration procedures.

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Exposure to pesticides and the associated human health effects.

Ki-Hyun Kim, Ehsanul Kabir, Shamin Ara Jahan (2017)

Pesticides are used widely to control weeds and insect infestation in agricultural fields and various pests and disease carriers (e.g., mosquitoes, ticks, rats, and mice) in houses, offices, malls, and streets. As the modes of action for pesticides are not species-specific, concerns have been raised about environmental risks associated with their exposure through various routes (e.g., residues in food and drinking water). Although such hazards range from short-term (e.g., skin and eye irritation, headaches, dizziness, and nausea) to chronic impacts (e.g., cancer, asthma, and diabetes), their risks are difficult to elucidate due to the involvement of various factors (e.g., period and level of exposure, type of pesticide (regarding toxicity and persistence), and the environmental characteristics of the affected areas). There are no groups in the human population that are completely unexposed to pesticides while most diseases are multi-causal to add considerable complexity to public health assessments. Hence, development of eco-friendly pesticide alternatives (e.g., EcoSMART) and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) techniques is desirable to reduce the impacts of pesticides. This paper was hence organized to present a comprehensive review on pesticides with respect to their types, environmental distribution, routes of exposure, and health impacts.

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Sex pheromones and their impact on pest management.

Peter Witzgall, Philipp Kirsch, Alan Cork (2010)

The idea of using species-specific behavior-modifying chemicals for the management of noxious insects in agriculture, horticulture, forestry, stored products, and for insect vectors of diseases has been a driving ambition through five decades of pheromone research. Hundreds of pheromones and other semiochemicals have been discovered that are used to monitor the presence and abundance of insects and to protect plants and animals against insects. The estimated annual production of lures for monitoring and mass trapping is on the order of tens of millions, covering at least 10 million hectares. Insect populations are controlled by air permeation and attract-and-kill techniques on at least 1 million hectares. Here, we review the most important and widespread practical applications. Pheromones are increasingly efficient at low population densities, they do not adversely affect natural enemies, and they can, therefore, bring about a long-term reduction in insect populations that cannot be accomplished with conventional insecticides. A changing climate with higher growing season temperatures and altered rainfall patterns makes control of native and invasive insects an increasingly urgent challenge. Intensified insecticide use will not provide a solution, but pheromones and other semiochemicals instead can be implemented for sustainable area-wide management and will thus improve food security for a growing population. Given the scale of the challenges we face to mitigate the impacts of climate change, the time is right to intensify goal-oriented interdisciplinary research on semiochemicals, involving chemists, entomologists, and plant protection experts, in order to provide the urgently needed, and cost-effective technical solutions for sustainable insect management worldwide.

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Journal ID (publisher): entomologia

Title: Entomologia Generalis

Subtitle: Journal of General and Applied Entomology - Zeitschrift für Allgemeine und Angewandte Entomologie

Abbreviated Title: entomologia

Publisher: Schweizerbart Science Publishers (Stuttgart, Germany http://www.schweizerbart.com/ mail@ 123456schweizerbart.de )

ISSN: 0171-8177

Publication date (Electronic): 08 December 2022

Publication date (Print): 08 December 2022

Volume: 42

Issue: 6

Pages: 839-843

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¹ Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, via del Borghetto 80, 56124 Pisa, Italy

² Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, TERRA, Université de Liège, Avenue de la Faculté d’Agronomie 2B, 5030, Gembloux, Belgique

³ Université Côte d’Azur, INRAE, CNRS, UMR ISA, 06000 Nice, France

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* Corresponding author: nicolas.desneux@ 123456inrae.fr

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Publisher ID: 102441 Manuscript ID: 1893

DOI: 10.1127/entomologia/2022/1893

SO-VID: a889ed35-9727-48c3-86f9-d0ca63b5d210

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This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Commercial use right is not granted.

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Date received : 02 November 2022

Date revision requested : 02 November 2022

Date revision received : 02 November 2022

Date accepted : 02 November 2022

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ScienceOpen disciplines: Entomology,Parasitology,Ecology,Molecular biology,Pests, Diseases & Weeds

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The sublethal effects of pesticides on beneficial arthropods.

Exposure to pesticides and the associated human health effects.

Sex pheromones and their impact on pest management.

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