Resistance to the Chlorinated Hydrocarbon Insecticides in the Boll Weevil1

Roussel, J. S.; Clower, D. F.

doi:10.1093/jee/50.4.463

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“…Some variation in boll weevil mortality, considered as due to an increase in tolerance, was recorded for the United States for boll weevil populations in the past 22 . Earlier reports of boll weevil resistance to other groups of insecticides occurred in the 1950s for chlorinated hydrocarbons in the southern United States (Arkansas and Mississippi) 50 . For pyrethroids and organophosphates, boll weevil populations showing increased survival after pesticide applications, were observed but characterized as tolerance rather than resistance, 48 even for exposures to technical grade cyfluthrin 22 .…”

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Field‐evolved resistance to beta‐cyfluthrin in the boll weevil: Detection and characterization

Rolim

Coelho

Antonino

et al. 2021

Pest Management Science

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BACKGROUND Insecticide resistance in arthropods is an inherited trait that has become a major cause of insect pest control failure. Monitoring the level of susceptibility and characterization of the type of resistance of key pest species aims to determine the risk of resistance selection in time to take action to mitigate control failures. Seven populations of the boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis grandis, collected from cotton fields in the Semiarid and Cerrado areas of Brazil, were screened for their resistance to malathion and beta‐cyfluthrin, insecticides widely recommended for control of boll weevil and other pests. RESULTS The levels of adult mortality were variable for beta‐cyfluthrin (0–82%) but invariant (100%) for malathion. Bioassays of concentration‐mortality were used to determine lethal concentrations (LCs) for each insecticide. The LC‐values corroborate the lack of resistance to field rates of malathion but high levels of resistance to beta‐cyfluthrin from 62.7‐ to 439.7‐fold. Weevils resistant to beta‐cyfluthrin were found through genome sequencing to possess a kdr mutation through the L1014F substitution in the voltage gated‐sodium channel gene. CONCLUSIONS This study found boll weevil resistance to beta‐cyfluthrin to be not mediated by carboxylesterases, but with cross‐resistance to DDT and carbaryl, and kdr mutation as the major mechanism of the resistance in our samples. Caution is recommended in further use of beta‐cyfluthrin against boll weevil due to potential resistance. Monitoring studies using other boll weevil populations are recommended to determine the geographic pattern and extent of pyrethroid resistance. © 2021 Society of Chemical Industry.

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Field‐evolved resistance to beta‐cyfluthrin in the boll weevil: Detection and characterization

Rolim

Coelho

Antonino

et al. 2021

Pest Management Science

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“…At present there is no evidence of insecticide resistance by bollworms in the region. However, resistance of the boll weevil to chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides was reported by Roussel andClower in Louisiana in 1955, andby Walker et al in Texas in 1956. Resistance of the bollworm and tobacco budworm to insecticides was reported by Adkisson et al and by Collins et al in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas.…”

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Impact of a More Intensive Insect Pest Infestation Level on Cotton Production: Texas High Plains

Masud

Lacewell

Stoll

et al. 1985

J. Agric. Appl. Econ.

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This study evaluated implications of increased bollworm problems in a 20-county area of the Texas High Plains relative to cotton yields and economic impact. Results did not indicate a serious effect of bollworms upon lint yield when insecticides were used for control. However, estimated annual reduction in farmer profit due to the bollworm for 1979-81 was over $30 million. Yields were estimated to decline about 300,000 bales without insecticide use and about 30,000 bales with insecticide use. This decline suggests potentially serious implications for the comparative economic position of cotton in this region if insecticide resistance were to develop among insect pests.

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“…), and the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say). Roussel and Glower (1957) reported Thiodan was ineffec tive in controlling a chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide-resistant strain of the boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis Boh. Cowan et al (1957) reported that Thiodan showed promise in controlling the boll weevil and the bollworm, Heliothis zea (Boddie).…”

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Chemical, biological, and residue dissipation experiments with Thiodan

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Resistance to the Chlorinated Hydrocarbon Insecticides in the Boll Weevil1

Cited by 17 publications

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Field‐evolved resistance to beta‐cyfluthrin in the boll weevil: Detection and characterization

Field‐evolved resistance to beta‐cyfluthrin in the boll weevil: Detection and characterization

Impact of a More Intensive Insect Pest Infestation Level on Cotton Production: Texas High Plains

Chemical, biological, and residue dissipation experiments with Thiodan

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