The acute toxicity of fipronil to two non-target invertebrates associated with mosquito breeding sites in Australia

Acta Tropica

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 125-130

  Stevens, M M ^a   Burdett, A S ^b   Mudford, E M ^a   Helliwell, S ^c   Doran, G ^c  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chironomidae; Daphniidae; Feeding; Fipronil; Pesticides; Polypedilum nubiferum; Rice fields; Simocephalus elizabethae

Indexed keywords

FIPRONIL;

BIOASSAY; BIOAVAILABILITY; BREEDING SITE; DIET; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FEEDING; MOSQUITO; PADDY FIELD; PESTICIDE; TOXICITY TEST;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADSORPTION; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOASSAY; BIOAVAILABILITY; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX; ECOTOXICITY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; INVERTEBRATE; LC 50; NONHUMAN; POLYPEDILUM NUBIFERUM; SIMOCEPHALUS ELIZABETHAE; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BREEDING; CHIRONOMIDAE; CULEX; CULICIDAE; DAPHNIA; INSECTICIDES; LETHAL DOSE 50; LINEAR MODELS; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PYRAZOLES; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION;

AUSTRALIA;

ARBOVIRUS; CHIRONOMIDAE; DAPHNIIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; POLYPEDILUM; POLYPEDILUM NUBIFERUM; SIMOCEPHALUS;

EID: 78650988123     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2010.11.002     Document Type: Article

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