Adapting pest management strategies to changing climates for the redlegged earth mite, Halotydeus destructor

JL Maino, PA Umina, C Pavri, X Cheng… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
As climate change continues to modify temperature and rainfall patterns, risks from pests
and diseases may vary as shifting temperature and moisture conditions affect the life history …

Discovery of insecticide resistance in field‐collected populations of the aphid pest, Acyrthosiphon kondoi Shinji

E Chirgwin, JA Thia, K Copping… - Pest Management …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND The bluegreen aphid (Acyrthosiphon kondoi) is a worldwide pest of alfalfa,
pulses, and other legume crops. An overreliance on insecticides to control A. kondoi has …

Temperature influences the toxicity, behavioral, and physiology response of chlorfenapyr, fipronil, imidacloprid, and indoxacarb to Reticulitermes flaviceps

H Han, Y Liu, S Yang, H Xue, D Zhang, Y Xie - Journal of Asia-Pacific …, 2024 - Elsevier
A comprehensive understanding of the interaction between pesticides and climate change is
critical to the safety of pesticide applications. Many insecticides are actually more toxic at …

From laboratory to field: laboratory-measured pesticide resistance reflects outcomes of field-based control in the redlegged earth mite, Halotydeus destructor

PA Umina, L McGrane, JA Thia, E Chirgwin… - … and Applied Acarology, 2023 - Springer
Resistance to pesticides is typically identified via laboratory bioassays after field control
failures are observed, but the results of such assays are rarely validated through …

Ace and ace‐like genes of invasive redlegged earth mite: copy number variation, target‐site mutations, and their associations with organophosphate insensitivity

JA Thia, PA Umina, AA Hoffmann - Pest Management Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background Invasive Australian populations of redlegged earth mite, Halotydeus
destructor (Tucker), are evolving increasing organophosphate resistance. In addition to the …

Evolution of an acetylcholinesterase gene complex and its contribution to organophosphate insensitivity in an invasive mite pest

JA Thia, PA Umina, AA Hoffmann - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Pesticide resistance provides an intriguing system to study adaptative evolution because the
candidate genes, the targets of pesticidal compounds, are often known a priori. In the …