Trials of Altozid SR-10 drug with juvenile activity against mosquitoes, Culex pipiens pipiens L
Pridantseva, E.A.; Volkova, T.V.
Meditsinskaia Parazitologiia i Parazitarnye Bolezni 45(4): 438-442
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-8326 PMID: 1023035 Document Number: 101153
Preliminary field trials of Altosid SR-10, a growth regulator with juvenile hormone [JH] activity, against Culex pipiens pipiens mosquitoes were carried out in Aug.-Sept, 1973, in the vicinities of Moscow [USSR]. Two water bodies with an area of about 60 s m2 were treated at a ratio of 120 g/ha of water surface. In these water bodies, metamorphosis of mosquitoes was blocked effectively, particularly during the 1st wk after treatment (92-100% death). The number of emerging imagoes in treated water bodies was reduced markedly in comparison with the control. In laboratory trials on Aedes aegypti L. larvae at the end of the IV stage with a 24 h exposure, the LC-95 value was 0.013 mg/l. Altozid SR-10 demonstrated a high JH, activity in mosquitoes which makes it a promising compound for mosquito control.