Insecticides for Control of the Lone Star Tick Tested in the Laboratory and as High- and Ultra-Low-Volume Sprays in Wooded Areas13
- 1 August 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 61 (4) , 1005-1007
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/61.4.1005
Abstract
The most effective insecticides tested in the laboratory as residues on filter paper against nymphs of the lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum (L.), were Bay 39007 (o-isopropoxyphenyl methylcarbamate), Banol® (6-chloro. 3,4-xylyl methylcarbamate), Shell SD-8530 (3,4,5-trimethyl. Phenyl methylcarbamate), Schering 34615 (m-eym-5-yl methylcarbamate), Dursban® (O,O-diethyl O.3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridyl phosphorothioate), naled, and dichlorvos. When high-volume sprays were applied to small plots in wooded areas (0.1-0.2 hectare) infested with nymphsand adults of the lone star tick, Dursban, diazinon, fenthion, and Sumithion® (Bay 41831) (O,O-dimethyl O nitro-m-tolyl phosphorothioate) gave good control at l.12 and 2.24 kg per hectare and were at least as effective as DDT. Aerial ultra-low-volume (ULV) applications of fenthion gave good control of lone star ticks at 2.24 kg/hectare but only fair control at 0.56 and l.12 kg/hectare. Ground ULV applications gave good control at doses of fenthion and Bay 39007 as low as 0.56 kg per hectare.Keywords
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