Transgenerational effects of lambda-cyhalothrin on Musca domestica L. (Diptera: Muscidae).

ABSTRACT: The hormetic effect may cause disease control measures to fail due to inadequate treatment of human disease vectors such as houseflies. Age-stage, two-sex life table is used for accurate estimation of the hermetic impacts on insects as it allows to study sub-lethal or transgenerational effects. Pyrethroids insecticides are primarily used for the management of houseflies. This study used lambda-cyhalothrin (a pyrethroid insecticide) to quantify its transgenerational impacts on houseflies. Life table parameters of a progeny of adult houseflies exposed to LC₁₀, LC_30, and LC₅₀ of lambda-cyhalothrin were computed. Statistically higher fecundity (71.31 per female) was observed in control treatment, while it was the adults exposed to LC₅₀ recorded the l

SUBMITTER: Ghramh HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9649667 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature