Insecticide resistance in the green peach-potato aphid myzus persicae (sulz.) (hemiptera: Aphididae)

Abstract

A population of the green peach-potato aphid (Myzus persicae) from a glasshouse in Christchurch was shown by laboratory methods to be highly resistant to maldison, demeton-S-methyl, and mevinphos. A degree of cross resistance to naled and acephate, which had not been used against these aphids, was demonstrated. Susceptible aphids from Levin were readily controlled by demeton-S-methyl, acephate, maldison, pirimicarb, mevinphos, and naled, but only pirimicarb adequately controlled the samples from Christchurch. © 1978 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.