title: Efficacy of Oxyfly on Culicoides species--the vectors of Bluetongue virus--and other insects.
abstract: The efficacy of the insecticide Oxyfly (active compound lambda-cyhalothrin) was tested against specimens of Culicoides species-the vectors of Bluetongue virus-and other insects. Living specimens of the insects were brought into contact for at least 10-15 s with treated wooden plates and the extinction period of the insects was followed over the next minutes or hours. It turned out that this rather short contact was sufficient to kill the Culicoides specimens in minutes and the other insects in a few hours even if the plates had been impregnated 9 weeks before.
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoomorphology, Cytology and Parasitology, Heinrich Heine University, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany.
authors.forename: Günter
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schmahl
authors.forename: Volker
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Walldorf
authors.forename: Sven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Klimpel
authors.forename: Saleh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Al-Quraishy
authors.forename: Heinz
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mehlhorn
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001819:Bluetongue / Q000635:transmission; D001820:Bluetongue virus; D002519:Ceratopogonidae / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000821:virology*; D007300:Insect Control / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000187:drug effects*; D007306:Insecticides / Q000494:pharmacology*; D009570:Nitriles / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011722:Pyrethrins / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D007306:Insecticides; D009570:Nitriles; D011722:Pyrethrins; C037304:cyhalothrin