Susceptibility of black fly larvae (diptera: simuliidae) to lawn-care insecticides individually and as mixtures

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1582-1588

  Overmyer, Jay P ^a   Armbrust, Kevin L ^b   Noblet, Ray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Insecticide mixtures; Insecticides; Simulium vittatum; Suburban watersheds; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; BIODIVERSITY; INSECT CONTROL; TOXICITY; WATERSHEDS;

TOXIC UNIT (TU);

INSECTICIDES;

CARBARIL; CHLORPYRIFOS; INSECTICIDE; MALATHION;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; FLY; INSECTICIDE; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; EVALUATION; FLY; LC 50; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXICITY TESTING; WATERSHED; ANIMAL; DRUG INTERACTION; LARVA; LD 50; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARACHNIDA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; SIMULIIDAE; SIMULIUM NIGRICOXUM; SIMULIUM VITTATUM;

ANIMALS; CARBARYL; CHLORPYRIFOS; DRUG INTERACTIONS; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; LETHAL DOSE 50; MALATHION; SIMULIIDAE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0141782662     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(2003)22<1582:SOBFLD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Kimbrough RA, Litke DW. 1994. Pesticide occurrence in a small urban and a small agricultural basin, South Platte River Basin, April through December 1993. Proceedings, 1994 South Platte Forum, Integrated Watershed Management in the South Platte Basin: Status and Practical Implementation, Greeley, CO, USA, October 26-27, pp 28-29.
2. Hippe DJ, Wangsness D, Frick E, Garret J. 1994. Water quality of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint and Ocmulgee river basins related to flooding for Tropical Storm Alberto; pesticides in urban and agricultural watersheds; and nitrate and pesticides in ground water, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4183. U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA.
3. Struger J, Boyter D, Licsko ZJ, Johnson BD. 1995. Environmental concentrations of urban pesticides. Proceedings, 38th Conference of the International Association of Great Lakes Research, East Lansing, MI, USA, May 28-June 1, p 127.
4. U.S. Geological Survey. 1999. The quality of our nation's waters-Nutrients and pesticides. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1225. Reston, VA.
5. Kaushik N, Kumar S. 1993. Susceptibility of the freshwater crab Paratelphusa masoniana (Henserson) to three pesticides, singly and in combination. Environ Ecol 11:560-564.
6. Macek KJ. 1975. Acute toxicity of pesticide mixtures to bluegills. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 14:648-652.
7. Konemann H. 1981. Fish toxicity tests with mixtures if more than two chemicals: A proposal for a quantitative approach and experimental results. Toxicology 19:229-238.
8. Lloyd R. 1985. The toxicity of mixtures of chemicals to fish: An overview of European laboratory and field experience. In Bergman HL, Kimerle RA, Maki AW, eds, Environmental Hazard Assessment of Effluents. Pergamon, New York, NY, USA, pp 42-53.
9. Broderius SJ, Kahl MD, Hoglund MD. 1995. Use of joint toxic response to define the primary mode of toxic action for diverse industrial organic chemicals. Environ Toxicol Chem 14:1591-1605.
10. McCarty LS, Ozburn GW, Smith AD, Dixon DG. 1992. Toxicokinetic modeling of mixtures of organic chemicals. Environ Toxicol Chem 11:1037-1047.
11. Durairaj S, Selvarajan VR. 1995. Synergistic action of organophosphorus pesticides on fish, Orechromis mossambicus. J Environ Biol 16:51-53.
12. Marking LL. 1985. Toxicity of chemical mixtures. In Rand GM, Petrocelli SR, eds, Fundamentals of Aquatic Toxicology: Methods and Applications. Hemisphere, New York, NY, USA, pp 164-176.
13. Pape-Linstrom PA, Lydy MJ. 1997. Synergistic toxicity of atrazine and organophosphate insecticides contravenes the response addition mixture model. Environ Toxicol Chem 16:2415-2420.
14. Cummins KW. 1987. The functional role of black flies in stream ecosystems. In Kim KC, Merrit RW, eds, Black Flies, Ecology, Population Management, and Annotated Word List. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, pp 1-10.
15. Gray EW, Noblet R. 1999. Large scale laboratory rearing of black flies. In Maramorosch K, Mahmood F, eds, Maintenance of Human, Animal, and Plant Pathogen Vectors. Oxford and IBH, Calcutta, India, pp 85-105.
16. Weber CI. 1993. Methods for measuring the acute toxicity of effluents and receiving waters to freshwater and marine organisms. EPA/600/4-90/027F. U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, pp 33-39.
17. American Public Health Association, American Water Works Association, Water Environment Federation. 1995. Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, 19th ed. American Public Health Association, Washington DC, pp 2-25-2-38.
18. Hudson SB. 1994. Factors affecting the survival of black fly larvae (Diptera: Simuliidae) when exposed to Bacillus thuringiensis serovar israliensis in the orbital shaker bioassay. Masters thesis. Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA.
19. Abbott WS. 1925. A method for computing the effectiveness of an insecticide. J Econ Entomol 18:265-267.
20. Newman MC. 1995. Lethal and other quantal responses to stressors. In Adriano DC, ed, Quantitative Methods in Aquatic Ecotoxicology. Lewis, Boca Raton, FL, USA, pp 119-176.
21. Tomlin CDS. 1997. The Pesticide Manual, 11th ed. British Crop Protection Council, Farnham, Surrey, UK.
22. Kreitzer JF, Spann JW. 1973. Tests of pesticidal synergism with young pheasants and Japanese quail. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 9:250-256.
23. Marking LL. 1977. Method for assessing additive toxicity of chemical mixtures. In Mayer FL, Hamelink JL, eds, Aquatic Toxicology and Hazard Evaluation. American Society for Testing Materials, Philadelphia, PA, pp 99-108.
24. Gupta AK, Dev Dutt, Anand M, Dalela RC. 1994. Combined toxicity of chlordane, malathion and furadan to a test fish Notopterus notopterus (Mor). J Environ Biol 15:1-6.
25. Johnston G, Walker CH, Dawson A. 1994. Potentiation of carbaryl toxicity to the hybrid red-legged partridge following exposure to malathion. Pestic Biochem Physiol 49:198-208.
26. Matsumara F. 1985. Toxicology of Insecticides, 2nd ed. Plenum, New York, NY, USA.
27. Pasarela NR, Brown RG, Schaffer CB. 1962. Feeding of malathion to cattle: Residue analyses of milk and tissue. J Agric Food Chem 10:7-9.
28. Siegfried BD, Young LJ. 1993. Activity of detoxification enzymes in aquatic and terrestrial insects. Environ Entomol 22:958-964.
29. DeMatteis F. 1974. Covalent binding of sulfur to microsomes and loss of cytochrome P450 during the oxidative desulfuration of several chemicals. Mol Pharmacol 10:849-854.
30. Uchiyama M, Yoshida T, Homma K, Hongo T. 1975. Inhibition of hepatic drug-metabolizing enzymes by thiophosphate insecticides and its drug toxicological implications. Biochem Pharmacol 24:1221-1225.
31. Halpert J, Neal RA. 1981. Inactivation of rat liver cytochrome P450 by the suicide substrates parathion and chloramphenicol. Drug Metab Rev 12:239-259.
32. Johnston G, Collett G, Walker C, Dawson A, Boyd I, Osborn D. 1989. Enhancement of malathion toxicity to the red-legged partridge following exposure to prochloraz. Pestic Biochem Physiol 35:107-118.
33. Vodela JK, Dalvi RR. 1995. Comparative toxicological studies of chlorpyrifos in rats and chickens. Veterinary and Human Toxicology 37:1-3.
34. Robacker KM, Kulkarni AP, Hodgson E. 1981. Pesticide induced changes in the mouse hepatic microsomal cytochrome P-450 dependent monooxygenase system and other enzymes. J Environ Sci Health Part B 16:529-545.
35. Lechner DW, Abdel-Rahman MS. 1986. Kinetics of carbaryl and malathion in combination in the rat. J Toxicol Environ Health 18:241-256.
36. Thompson HM, Walker CH, Hardy AR. 1991. Changes in activity of avian serum esterases following exposure to organophosphorus insecticides. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 20:514-518.
37. Escartín E, Porte C. 1997. The use of cholinesterase and carboxylesterase activities from Mytilus galloprovincialis in pollution monitoring. Environ Toxicol Chem 16:2090-2095.
38. American Society for Testing Materials. 1993. Standard practice for conducting toxicity tests with fishes, macroinvertebrates, and amphibians. E 729-80. Philadelphia, PA.