Nonsteroidal ecdysone agonists are novel compounds that have become attractive
candidates not only as pest control agents in agriculture but also as tools for research. Their …

During the last five decades conventional insecticides, all neuroactive chemicals have
played major role in management of insect pests in vegetables, their indiscriminate uses led …

Beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua is a major insect pest of vegetables in China, and has
been reported to develop resistance to many broad-spectrum insecticides. Recently …

Imidacloprid has been used as a key insecticide for controlling sucking insect pests of
cotton, whereas Spodoptera litura also has been indirectly exposed to this insecticide in …

The beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua, is a major lepidopteran pest of global importance
in cultivation of numerous crops including cotton, maize, soybean, onion, cabbage, and …

Susceptibility to methoxyfenozide of Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval)(Lepidoptera:
Noctuidae) larvae was determined through exposure of neonate and fourth instars to dipped …

The cutworm Spodoptera litura is a major insect pest of vegetables and cotton in China, and
has been reported to develop resistance to various classes of insecticides …

The present studies were carried out to evaluate resistance in Pakistani populations of beet
armyworm, Spodoptera exigua (Hubner) to various insecticides. Different field populations of …

A susceptible strain of diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.), was used to select for
resistance to tebufenozide in the laboratory. After continuous selection with tebufenozide 17 …

Methoxyfenozide (RH-2485) was found to be 7.5-fold less toxic in terms of LD50 values
against last-instar larvae of a greenhouse-selected strain of the beet armyworm Spodoptera …