Resistance to commonly used insecticides and phosphine fumigant in red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier) in Pakistan.

The red palm weevil Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier) is an important pest of date palms in many regions of the world. This paper reports the first survey of insecticide resistance in field populations of R. ferrugineus in Pakistan which were collected from seven date palm growing areas across Pun...

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Main Authors: Waqas Wakil, Muhammad Yasin, Mirza Abdul Qayyum, Muhammad Usman Ghazanfar, Abdullah M Al-Sadi, Geoffrey O Bedford, Yong Jung Kwon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6053126?pdf=render