The western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte (Dvv) is a major insect pest of maize in the US (U.S.). This paper evaluations the historical past of insecticide use in Dvv administration applications, Dvv adaptation to pesticides, i.e., field-evolved resistance and related mechanisms of resistance, plus the present position of pesticides within the transgenic period. Within...
