Environmental impact of pesticides
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- Review a list of pesticide impact studies here: Evaluation of Field Trials Data on the Efficacy and Selectivity of Insecticides on Locusts and Grasshoppers https://www.fao.org/ag/locusts/common/ecg/2614/en/PRG11.pdf
- Lahr J, Diallo AO, Gadji B, Diouf PS, Bedaux JJM, Badji A, Ndour KB, Andreasen JE, van Straalen NM (2000) Ecological effects of experimental insecticide applications on invertebrates in Sahelian temporary ponds. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 19: 1278–1289. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5620190509
- Lahr J, Badji A, Marquenie S, Schuiling E, Ndour KB, Diallo AO, Everts JW (2001) Acute Toxicity of Locust Insecticides to Two Indigenous Invertebrates from Sahelian Temporary Ponds. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 48: 66–75. https://doi.org/10.1006/eesa.2000.1995
- Fenitrothion and chlorpyrifos
- Mullié WC, Verwey PJ, Berends AG, Everts JW, Sene F and Koeman JH (1991) The impact of pesticides on palearctic migratory birds in the Western Sahel. ICBP Technical Publication, 12, 35-58.
- [https://doi.org/10.1016/S0261-2194(99)00072-1 Environmental impact of the locust control agents fenitrothion, fenitrothion–esfenvalerate and triflumuron on terrestrial arthropods in Madagasca
- [https://doi.org/10.1665/1082-6467(2001)010%5B0171:ECALCP%5D2.0.CO;2 Environmental conservation and locust control — possible conflicts and solution
- Effects of grasshopper-control insecticides on survival and brain acetylcholinesterase of pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) chicks
- Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 15: 518–524 https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.544.7940&rep=rep1&type=pdf
- Greig-Smith,P.I. (1993) Killing with care-can pesticides be environmentally friendly? Biologist3,132-
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- Stewart,D.A.B.(1998) Non-target grasshoppers as indicators of the side-effects of chemical locust control
- in the Karoo, South Afiica, J. insect Cons. 2, 263-276
- malathion
- "...decade-long control of grasshoppers in the US using malathion led to detrimental changes in grassland community composition and a predominance of economically harmful grasshoppers (pest resurgence)." [1]
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- Why is it hard to "do the right thing"
- cost
- external costs such as removal of obsolete stocks or economic losses https://www.fao.org/ag/locusts/common/ecg/2614/en/PRG11.pdf