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ORGANOPHOSPHORUS (OP) chemicals were introduced as alternative insecticides for use against Lucilia cuprina in Australia after the development of cyclodiene resistance in the species late in 1957 (ref. 1). Surveillance tests have been conducted almost every year since 1957 to seek a possible change in response of the blowfly to OP insecticides. For this work field strains of blowflies were established in the laboratory from larvae taken from sheep with flystrike. Samples of females were topically treated on the dorsal thorax by a method already described with concentrations of OP liquids, known to be lethal to susceptible flies2.
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SHANAHAN, G., HART, R. Change in Response of Lucilia cuprina Wied. to Organophosphorus Insecticides in Australia. Nature 212, 1466–1467 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2121466b0
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