Integrated pest management: Novel tools, remaining challenges, and intriguing non-target effects

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Optimizing pest control strategies

Pest surveillance and insecticide resistance monitoring ,are critical components of sustainable and effective pest control strategies, allowing for evidence-based decision making. Caputo and Manica discuss in their review the challenges of mosquito surveillance programs, emphasize their importance in guiding mosquito-control operations, well as well as, in identifying thresholds of action, aiming to prevent the outbreak of diseases and reduce the nuisance caused by mosquitoes. Surveillance is

Novel tools to fight vector-borne diseases

Genetic control tools like SIT (Sterile Insect Technique) and RIDL (Release of Insects carrying a Dominant Lethal) have been used in several cases to suppress the population size of arthropod pests, like the dengue and Zika transmitting mosquito, Ae. aegypti [13], as well as species belonging to the Tephritidae family (Insecta: Diptera) that are major agricultural pests [14]. However, these genetic control tools cannot be implemented on a large scale as they are logistically challenging,

Effect of control interventions on parasites of arthropods

The potential non-target effects of pest control strategies on host-parasite interactions have been rarely studied in detail. Minetti, Ingham, and Ranson, outline the currently available evidence that the selection of insecticide resistance in Anopheles mosquitoes and their sub-lethal exposure to insecticides can affect the development of Plasmodium, the causative agent of malaria. The putative mechanisms underlying this interaction are presented, and studies implicating the overexpression of

Sabina Bajda received her Ph.D. in Molecular Toxicology in 2018 from the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on understanding the effects of natural and synthetic xenobiotics on herbivorous arthropods and their natural enemies and how these affect the efficiency of integrated pest management. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Plants and Crops at Ghent University.

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Sabina Bajda received her Ph.D. in Molecular Toxicology in 2018 from the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on understanding the effects of natural and synthetic xenobiotics on herbivorous arthropods and their natural enemies and how these affect the efficiency of integrated pest management. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Plants and Crops at Ghent University.

Linda Grigoraki received her PhD in Insect Molecular Biology in 2017 from the University of Crete. During her PhD Linda investigated the molecular basis of insecticide resistance in major disease vectors, including the tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus and the West Nile Virus transmitting Culex pipiens. After her PhD she moved to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to study the biosynthesis of the cuticle in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae and explore how cuticular modifications influence several important traits in mosquitoes, including insecticide resistance. In 2019 Linda was awarded the Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship.

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