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drosophila simulans

Profile

Order Family Common Name(s) Group Host
diptera drosophilidae fruit fly AG

Shown Resistance to Active Ingredient(s)

  1. malathion

Citation(s) of Resistance

# Citation
1 Windelspecht, M., R. C. Richmond, and B.J. Cochrane. (1995). Malathion Resistance Levels in Sympatric Populations of Drosophila simulans (Diptera: Drosophilidae) and D. melanogaster differ by two orders of Magnitude. Journal of Economic Entomology, 88(5) 1138-1143.

Location(s) Where Resistance is Reported

# Location
1 179 -- USA -- Florida -- 4

Other Reference

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