- 著者
- Jonathan J. Sullivan Kean S. Goh
- 出版者
- 日本農薬学会
- 雑誌
- Journal of Pesticide Science (ISSN:1348589X)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.33, no.4, pp.339-350, 2008-11-25 (Released:2008-11-25)
- 参考文献数
- 47
- 被引用文献数
- 13 81 23
Pyriproxyfen is a broad-spectrum insect growth regulator (IGR) with insecticidal activity against public health insect pests such as houseflies, mosquitoes and cockroaches. In agriculture and horticulture, pyriproxyfen has registered uses for the control of scale, whitefly, aphids and fire ants. It is used extensively worldwide, particularly in developing countries, although it has no significant uses in California. Pyriproxyfen acts on the endocrine system of insects by mimicking the juvenile hormone, thereby hindering molting and subsequently inhibiting reproduction. IGRs are unique in that they are specific for insects and have very low mammalian toxicity. As such, pyriproxyfen has received U.S. EPA status as a Reduced Risk insecticide and an organophosphate alternative and is the only pesticide approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) for treatment of potable water against mosquito. However, concerns about its environmental persistence and latent toxicity to nontarget organisms have been recently raised and discussed. In this context, a detailed review of the environmental fate and physicochemical properties of pyriproxyfen from the available scientific literature and from data gathered in its development and testing is needed. This paper gathers, combines, and abridges important environmental fate and property data on pyriproxyfen for academics, environmental scientists and agricultural professionals needing ready access to this information.
- 著者
- Amrith S. Gunasekara Tresca Truong Kean S. Goh Frank Spurlock Ronald S. Tjeerdema
- 出版者
- Pesticide Science Society of Japan
- 雑誌
- Journal of Pesticide Science (ISSN:1348589X)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.32, no.3, pp.189-199, 2007 (Released:2007-08-27)
- 参考文献数
- 47
- 被引用文献数
- 184 266
Fipronil is a relatively new insecticide that controls a broad spectrum of insects at low field application rates. It is a “new generation” insecticide because its mode of action, interference with the normal function of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-gated channels, differs from the classical insecticides, such as organophosphates and carbamates, to which some insects have developed resistance. Fipronil is extensively used throughout the world and numerous studies have evaluated its toxicity and environmental fate. However, a concise review summarizing and combining the recent scientific findings available in the scientific literature is lacking even though the pesticide has been found to be highly toxic to some aquatic organisms. Thus, this document evaluates, summarizes, and combines important toxicological and environmental fate information from recent scientific articles and other literature to produce a detailed review of fipronil.