PUBLICATION: Vegetable oil-based surfactants are adjuvants that enhance the efficacy of neonicotinoid insecticides and can bias susceptibility testing in adult mosquitoes By Fred A. Ashu and al
In the present study, using standard test procedures, we report that relatively cheap surfactants such as vegetable oil esters or soap at 0.5 or 1% v/v mixture with neonicotinoids can selectively enhance the potency of neonicotinoids against mosquito populations. This can bias the test incase resistance is present in the tested population at a low…