Species sensitivity distributions Australia

Distributions of the MOE have been presented for individual exposure pathways (drinking water ingestion, dietary consumption, and herbicide handling), for the combined exposure pathways, and for atrazine and simazine both separately and combined. The MOEs have been calculated using a lower bound on the ED10 for the most sensitive effect in the most sensitive sex, strain, and species studied in chronic animal bioassays (i.e., mammary tumors in female SD rats). This mammary tumor response in the SD rat is not relevant to humans (IARC, 1999 United Kingdom, 2000 USEPA, 2003 Australia, 2004). 

The principal insects that attack wool are the common clothes moth (7)i-neola bisselliella), the case-bearing clothes moths Tinea metonella, T. dubiella, T translucens, and T. pellionella), the brown house moth Hofmannophila pseu-dospretella), the variegated carpet beetle Anthrenus verbasci), the black carpet beetle (Attagenus piceus), and a few others. The taxonomy of the Tineid species has been comprehensively reviewed (143). These insects have difierent temperature sensitivities and tend to be found in different climates. Studies in Australia have shown that the native Tineids are rarely involved in domestic infestations. The introduced species, such as T. translucens, are the major textile pests and these are often associated with the nests of introduced urban bird species such as sparrows and swallows (144), while T. bisselliella is widely distributed and is common in domestic infestations. 

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