Advances in Urban Pest Management in Europe
A special issue of Insects (ISSN 2075-4450). This special issue belongs to the section "Insect Pest and Vector Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 19409
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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to submit original research articles or reviews for the Special Issue “Advances in Urban Pest Management in Europe”.
The domestic and peri-domestic environment in European cities provides harborage and food for insects and other arthropods which are considered pests, either because they bite, sting, suck blood, transmit parasites and pathogens, contaminate food, damage wood or fabrics, or because they induce allergies or entomophobia. Household and structural arthropod pests in the urban environment include mosquitoes, bedbugs, fleas, ticks, cockroaches, ants, flies, wasps, textile-attacking insects, termites, stored-product pests, spiders, and others. For their management, a variety of chemical and nonchemical methods are used. Consideration for adverse exposure to humans and non-target organisms has led to the development of modern insecticides and application techniques, while maintaining or increasing efficacy.
This Special Issue aims to report recent advances in urban pest management strategies against household and structural pest insects and other arthropods encountered in Europe, including synthetic insecticides and repellents, insecticide resistance management, botanical, microbial and biological control agents, nanotechnology, attract and kill strategies, transgenic and biotechnological control methods, sterile insect technique, modified atmospheres, and others.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
Urban entomology, applied entomology, urban pest management, parasitology, chemical control, insecticide resistance, biological control, biotechnology, nanotechnology.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Athanasios Giatropoulos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- urban pest insects
- urban pest management
- insecticides
- repellents
- insecticide resistance
- plant-based insecticides
- nanotechnology
- microbials
- transgenic control methods
- biotechnological control methods
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