Larvicide diflubenzuron

Webb, D.P and K.B. Wildey. 1986. Evaluation of the larvicide diflubenzuron for the control of a multiinsecticide resistant strain of housefly (Musca domestica) on a UK pig farm. Inter. Pest Control 28 64-66. 

Ali, A. and M.S. Mulla. 1978a. Effects of chironomid larvicides and diflubenzuron on nontarget invertebrates in residential-recreational lakes. Environ. Entomol. 7 21-27. 

The pest mosquito Aedes nigromacul Ls of the vast San Joaquin valley of California went resistant to organochlorines by 1951, to parathion by 1960, to fenthion by 1965, and to chlorpyrifos (Dursban) by 1970. At present reliance is placed on larvicidal oils, the juvenile-hormone mimic methoprene (Altosid) and the insect growth regulator diflubenzuron (Dimilin), — and on better management of surplus irrigation water. Residual sprays for housefly control, at first so spectacular with the organochlorines, had to move into the OP compounds, which were then knocked out in... 

They have been summarized elsewhere (<3, 2., JK3, JM ) However, it is relevant to mention that in several studies, additionally to the larvicidal effect of diflubenzuron, activities on the eggs of various insect species have been found (12, 13 14, 15 16, 17... 

Diflubenzuron is used as an insecticide, larvicide, ovicide, and insect growth regulator. 

Keiding, J., Jespersen, J.B. and El-Khodary, A.S. (1991) Resistance risk assessment of two insect development inhibitors, diflubenzuron and cryomazine, for control of the house fly Musca domestica. Part 1 larvicide tests with insecticide-resistant laboratory and Danish field populations. Pesticide Science, 32, 187-206. 

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