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Nonlethal Effects of Pesticides on Web-Building Spiders Might Account for Rapid Mosquito Population Rebound after Spray Application

by
Stefan N. Rhoades
and
Philip K. Stoddard
*
Institute of Environment, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199, USA
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(4), 1360; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11041360
Submission received: 17 December 2020 / Revised: 28 January 2021 / Accepted: 31 January 2021 / Published: 3 February 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pesticide Applications in Agricultural Systems)
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Spiders are important population regulators of insect pests that spread human disease and damage crops. Nonlethal pesticide exposure is known to affect behavior of arthropods. For spiders such effects include the inability to repair their webs or capture prey. In this study, nonlethal exposure of Mabel’s orchard spider (Leucauge argyrobapta) to the synthetic pyrethroid permethrin, via web application, interfered with web reconstruction and mosquito capture ability for 1–3 days. The timing of this loss-of-predator ecosystem function corresponds to the rapid population rebound of the yellow fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti) following insecticide application to control arbovirus epidemics. We suggest this temporal association is functional and propose that follow-up study be conducted to evaluate its significance.
Keywords: Aedes aegypti; Leucauge argyrobapta; nontarget effects; permethrin; pyrethroid; Tetragnathidae Aedes aegypti; Leucauge argyrobapta; nontarget effects; permethrin; pyrethroid; Tetragnathidae
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Rhoades, S.N.; Stoddard, P.K. Nonlethal Effects of Pesticides on Web-Building Spiders Might Account for Rapid Mosquito Population Rebound after Spray Application. Appl. Sci. 2021, 11, 1360. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11041360

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Rhoades SN, Stoddard PK. Nonlethal Effects of Pesticides on Web-Building Spiders Might Account for Rapid Mosquito Population Rebound after Spray Application. Applied Sciences. 2021; 11(4):1360. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11041360

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Rhoades, Stefan N., and Philip K. Stoddard. 2021. "Nonlethal Effects of Pesticides on Web-Building Spiders Might Account for Rapid Mosquito Population Rebound after Spray Application" Applied Sciences 11, no. 4: 1360. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11041360

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Rhoades, S. N., & Stoddard, P. K. (2021). Nonlethal Effects of Pesticides on Web-Building Spiders Might Account for Rapid Mosquito Population Rebound after Spray Application. Applied Sciences, 11(4), 1360. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11041360

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