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European Populations Of Diabrotica Virgifera Virgifera Are Resistant To Aldrin, But Not To Methyl-Parathion, M. Ciosi, S. Toepfer, H. Li, T. Haye, U. Kuhlmann, Haichuan Wang, Blair D. Siegfried, T. Guillemaud
European Populations Of Diabrotica Virgifera Virgifera Are Resistant To Aldrin, But Not To Methyl-Parathion, M. Ciosi, S. Toepfer, H. Li, T. Haye, U. Kuhlmann, Haichuan Wang, Blair D. Siegfried, T. Guillemaud
Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications
The western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), is a major pest of cultivated corn in North America and has recently begun to invade Europe. In addition to crop rotation, chemical control is an important option for D. v. virgifera management. However, resistance to chemical insecticides has evolved repeatedly in the USA. In Europe, chemical control strategies have yet to be harmonized and no surveys of insecticide resistance have been carried out. We investigated the resistance to methyl-parathion and aldrin of samples from nine D. v. virgifera field populations originating from two European outbreaks thought to have originated …