Environmental concentrations, fate, and risk assessment of pyrethrins and piperonyl butoxide after aerial ultralow-volume applications for adult mosquito management

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1063-1068

  Schleier III, Jerome J ^a   Peterson, Robert K D ^a   Macedo, Paula A ^b   Brown, David A ^b  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sacramento Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District   (United States)

Author keywords

Culex; Mosquito control; Pest management; Pesticide; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); INSECTICIDES; PEST CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CULEX; PEST MANAGEMENT;

MOSQUITO CONTROL;

CINERIN; INSECTICIDE; JASMOLIN; PIPERONYL BUTOXIDE; PYRETHRIN; PYRETHROID;

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE VECTOR; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INSECTICIDE; MORTALITY; MOSQUITO; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX TARSALIS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; MORTALITY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; PIPERONYL BUTOXIDE; PYRETHRINS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CALIFORNIA; COLUSA COUNTY; NEW JERSEY; NORTH AMERICA; PRINCETON [NEW JERSEY]; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX TARSALIS;

EID: 43649097598     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/07-532.1     Document Type: Article

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