insect pest
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- The noctuid moth, Helicoverpa armigera, is one of the globally most damaging agricultural pest insects.
- Scorpion envenomations remain a serious health problem in many parts of the world, generally occurring in the summer months.
- Mosquito species from the Anopheles gambiae complex and the Anopheles funestus group are dominant African malaria vectors.
- The brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys) has emerged as one of the most important invasive insect pests in the United States.
- The forests of the northern Rocky Mountains are hosts of nine species of Nearctic conifer-infesting bark beetles of the genus Scolytus Geoffroy.
- The rice leaf folder Cnaphalocrocis medinalis Güenée is a serious insect pest of rice in Asia.
- Varroatosis, caused by the Varroa destructor mite, is currently the most dangerous parasitic disease threatening the survival of honey bees worldwide.
- The increasing levels of pesticide resistance in agricultural pests and disease vectors represents a threat to both food security and global health.
- Spotted wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii, is an invasive insect pest that has spread into many fruit production regions of the world.
- In recent years, concern has been raised over honey bee colony losses, and also among wild bees there is evidence for extinctions and range contractions in Europe and North America.
- The use of synthetic insecticides to limit the spread of mosquito-borne disease faces a number of significant challenges, including insecticide resistance, concerns related to the environmental impact of widespread insecticide use, as well as slowed development of new insecticide chemistries.
- Myiasis is the infestation of live human and vertebrate animals with dipterous larvae, which, at least for a certain period, feed on the host's dead or living tissue, liquid body-substances or ingested food (Zumpt, 1965).