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Waleed S. Alwaneen, Waqas Wakil, Nickolas G. Kavallieratos, Mirza Abdul Qayyum, Muhammad Tahir, Khawaja G. Rasool, Mureed Husain, Abdulrahman S. Aldawood and David Shapiro-Ilan
The red palm weevil (RPW), Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier) (Coleoptera: Dryophthoridae), is a destructive and voracious pest of palm species worldwide. Due to environmental and regulatory concerns, ecologically safe alternatives to synthetic chemical...
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Changyao Shan, Xinyue You, Li Li, Xin Du, Yonglin Ren and Tao Liu
Ethyl formate (EF), a naturally occurring fumigant, has attracted widespread attention owing to its low toxicity in mammals. Here, Direct Immersion Solid-Phase Microextraction (DI-SPME) was employed for sample preparation in mass spectrometry-based untar...
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Jaciele O. Dantas, Sócrates C. H. Cavalcanti, Ana Paula A. Araújo, Jefferson E. Silva, Thaysnara B. Brito, Valfran S. Andrade, Heloisa S. S. Pinheiro, Swamy R. S. A. Tavares, Arie F. Blank and Leandro Bacci
Leaf-cutting ants are important pests of agricultural and forest crops. Currently, few insecticides are registered for the control of these insects. Natural bioactive molecules can serve as models for the synthesis of new insecticidal compounds. Such ant...
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Jaciele O. Dantas, Sócrates C. H. Cavalcanti, Ana Paula A. Araújo, Arie F. Blank, Jefferson E. Silva, Marcelo C. Picanço, Eraldo Lima, Valfran S. Andrade, Thaysnara B. Brito and Leandro Bacci
Ants belonging to the genus Solenopsis are highly significant invasive pests worldwide. The control of these insects has historically relied on the use of synthetic insecticides, which, unfortunately, has led to a range of ecological repercussions. In li...
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Anna Sabbatini, Francesca Caridi, Giovanni Birarda, Elisa Costanzi, Adolfo Amici, Giovanna Mobbili, Carla Buosi, Giovanni De Giudici, Daniela Medas and Alessandra Negri
The most often dispersed environmental pollutants that are released both directly and indirectly into the environment that may eventually reach aquatic ecosystems and contaminate aquatic biomes are cigarette butts (CBs). Toxicants such as nicotine, dange...
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Young-Joo Yun, Sung-Ah Kim, Jaehee Kim and Jae-Sung Rhee
Diuron, an additive biocide in antifouling paints, is widely employed to curtail the attachment of organisms on submerged surfaces in aquatic structures. Despite the detection of diuron in aquatic ecosystems, information regarding its acute and chronic i...
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Justyna Chojnacka, Agata Drobniewska, Wioletta Lenga, Joanna Misztal, Milena Wawryniuk and Grzegorz Nalecz-Jawecki
Antidepressants, especially selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, which are among the most commonly used pharmaceuticals, are ubiquitous in effluents and freshwaters. Microparticles, including microplastics, show sorption properties to different comp...
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Pinar Arslan and Aysel Çaglan Günal
Fipronil is widely used against insects in agriculture and ectoparasites in domestic areas and veterinary medicine. However, fipronil may influence non-target species as a result of the contamination of aquatic ecosystems. The present study aimed to inve...
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Zhuo-Kun Liu, Xue-Lin Li, Xiao-Feng Tan, Mao-Fa Yang, Atif Idrees, Jian-Feng Liu, Sai-Jie Song and Jian Shen
Fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), is a highly invasive polyphagous pest that causes great economic losses to agricultural production. Emamectin benzoate (EMB) is one of the most popular biopesticides with high antipest,...
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Sara M. Garcia, Kevin T. Du Clos, Olivia H. Hawkins and Brad J. Gemmell
The eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica is an ecologically and economically important species that is vulnerable to oil pollution. We assessed sublethal effects of soluble fractions of crude oil alone (WAF) and crude oil in combination with Corexit 9500...
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