1. Toxicity of Methyl Benzoate and Analogs to Adult Aedes aegypti
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Nicholas R. Larson, Mark F. Feldlaufer, Mahalet Nega, and Aijun Zhang
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0106 biological sciences ,Insecticides ,Insecta ,animal structures ,030231 tropical medicine ,Aedes aegypti ,Methyl benzoate ,Benzoates ,01 natural sciences ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,0302 clinical medicine ,Bed bug ,Aedes ,Animals ,Drosophila suzukii ,Brown marmorated stink bug ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Diamondback moth ,biology ,Traditional medicine ,fungi ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Plutella ,General Medicine ,biology.organism_classification ,010602 entomology ,chemistry ,Insect Science ,Female ,Cimex lectularius - Abstract
Methyl benzoate is a natural product (floral volatile organic compound) that is currently used as a food flavoring ingredient. This compound has shown to be insecticidal in laboratory studies against agricultural and urban pests, including spotted wing drosophila Drosophila suzukii, brown marmorated stink bug Hyalomorpha halys, the diamondback moth Plutella xylostella, and the common bed bug Cimex lectularius, to name several insect taxa. In this study we topically treated adult Aedes aegypti females with methyl benzoate and analogs and determined their toxicities. We found that among adult females, 4 analogs—butyl benzoate, n-pentyl benzoate, vinyl benzoate, and methyl 3-methoxybenzoate—were more toxic than the parent compound, methyl benzoate.
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- 2021
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