| Title: | "Characterizing Repellencies of Methyl Benzoate and Its Analogs against the Common Bed Bug, Cimex lectularius" |
| Author(s): | Strickland J; Larson NR; Feldlaufer M; Zhang A; |
| Address: | "Invasive Insect Biocontrol and Behavior Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center-West, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 2075-4450 (Print) 2075-4450 (Electronic) 2075-4450 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Bed bug infestations are on the rise globally, and remediation efforts are becoming more expensive and difficult to achieve due to rising insecticide resistance in the pest populations. This study evaluates Cimex lectularius behavior in the presence of attractive elements-aggregation pheromone or food source (human blood)-and the reported botanical repellent methyl benzoate (MB), several MB analogs, as well as the well-known insect repellent, N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide (DEET). Utilizing EthoVision, a video tracking system, we now report that MB and several of its analogs exhibit strong spatial repellency against C. lectularius, with methyl 2-methoxybenzoate (M2MOB) and methyl 3-methoxybenzoate (M3MOB) exhibiting the strongest repellent effects. Further, our data showed that MB, M2MOB, M3MOB, and DEET exhibit repellency against a pyrethroid resistant strain of C. lectularius" |
| Keywords: | Deet EthoVision methyl benzoate methyl benzoate analogs natural product repellent; |
| Notes: | "PubMed-not-MEDLINEStrickland, Jaime Larson, Nicholas R Feldlaufer, Mark Zhang, Aijun eng USDA ARS in-house Project # 8042-32000-012-000D/ DOD Deployed Warfighter Protection (DWFP) Program/ Switzerland 2022/11/25 Insects. 2022 Nov 17; 13(11):1060. doi: 10.3390/insects13111060" |
