Larvae salt marsh caterpillar

The cotton leaf worm [Alabama argillacea (Hbn.)] and several other leaf-feeding lepidopterous larvae, particularly Anomis texana Riley and the salt-marsh caterpillar [Estigmene acrea (Drury)], sometimes cause total destruction of the cotton crop in localized areas. 

Little has been done to study phthalate ester metabolism in other individual species. Mosquito larvae and salt marsh caterpillar larvae, however, were each shown to transform dioctyl... 

Aquatic Ecosystem and Fish. Metcalf et al. (2) studied the fate of diflubenzuron (radiolabeled separately in three different positions) in their model ecosystem. Diflubenzuron was dubbed "moderately persistent" in algae, snails, salt marsh caterpillars, and mosquito larvae as evidenced by limited biodegradability (Table IV). However, diflubenzuron and its nonpolar metabolites were not prone to ecological magnification in Gambusia fish. The lack of bioaccumulation of diflubenzuron residues in fish was substantiated by Booth and Ferrell (14) who used the channel catfish, Ictalurus, in a simulated lake ecosystem. They treated separate soil samples at 0.007 and 0.55 ppm, respectively. 

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