No evidence of an increased prevalence of knockdown resistance in the English grain aphid Sitobion avenae following the EU ban on neonicotinoids in Ireland
The English grain aphid Sitobion avenae is a major pest of cereals in Europe, with control hindered by pyrethroid resistance in a single clonal lineage (SA3) due to a mutation in the voltage-gated sodium channel gene (knockdown resistance or kdr). In 2018, the European Union banned neonicotinoid seed treatments for out...