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1 December 2015 Suitability of Mixing Fluorescent Dye in Adulticides and its Impact on Droplet Characteristics and Pesticide Efficacy
Muhammad Farooq, Christy Waits
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Fluorescent dyes are commonly used to help visualize insecticidal droplets or to trace movement of insecticides; however, the effect these dyes have on the insecticide’s efficacy and droplet characteristics is unknown. This study evaluated the effects of mixing Uvitex OB fluorescent dye with 5 adulticides on their efficacy in a wind tunnel. Efficacy was determined via droplet size characteristics, spray flux (active ingredient [AI] deposition), and female adult Aedes aegypti mortality. Fyfanon® ULV, Anvil® 10 10, Duet™, Aqualuer® 20-20, and Zenivex® E20, diluted with corn oil, were tested with and without the dye at maximum, minimum, and half-minimum label rates. Adulticide droplet size was not affected by the addition of dye to any of the 5 pesticides tested. Mosquito mortality was strongly correlated with AI deposition for all pesticides except Duet. There was no difference among correlation coefficients of the 5 pesticides and between coefficients of any pesticide pairs, indicating that all correlations were similar. The addition of dye slightly but nonsignificantly and nonconsistently affected mortality. It was found that the source of this variability was due to large variation in mortality among different replicates of the same treatment.

Copyright © 2015 by The American Mosquito Control Association, Inc.
Muhammad Farooq and Christy Waits "Suitability of Mixing Fluorescent Dye in Adulticides and its Impact on Droplet Characteristics and Pesticide Efficacy," Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 31(4), 353-359, (1 December 2015). https://doi.org/10.2987/moco-31-04-353-359.1
Published: 1 December 2015
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KEYWORDS
mosquito
space spray
ultra-low volume
vector control
volume median diameter
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