Toxicity and Transmission of Thiamethoxam in the Asian Subterranean Termite Coptotermes gestroi (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Abstract The toxicity and horizontal transmission of thiamethoxam was evaluated in the workers of the Asian subterranean termite Coptotermes gestroi Wasmann (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae). Brief exposure to sand treated with thiamethoxam at concentration ranging from 0.25 to 50 µg/ml resulted in a dose-dependent mortality in C. gestroi . Sand treated with 50 µg/ml thiamethoxam resulted in very high mortality within 30–60 min of exposure. Termites exposed to sand treated with 0.25–25 µg/ml exhibited delayed toxicity and nonrepellency in C. gestroi . A horizontal transmission study using 25 µg/ml of thiamethoxam at donor–recipient ratio of at least 2:5 (treated:untreated) indicated that thiamethoxam can be transferred between exposed and unexposed workers, resulting in significant termite mortality in unexposed termites within 1–3 d post exposure.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Journal of Insect Science

• Publication date

  2014-01-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1093/jisesa/ieu084PMID 25502030PMCID 5634072
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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