Applied & specialist
Entomology
Insecticide efficacy and resistance work on colonies we breed ourselves
- Key capability
- In-house
- Listed methods
- 17
Overview
Entomology, in overview.
Discipline group
Applied & specialist
Capability groups
3
Efficacy data is only as good as the insects behind it. This division maintains in-house breeding programmes for its test species, which removes the variability that makes field-collected populations unreliable as a baseline.
Contact, residual and knockdown efficacy, repellency, larvicidal and adulticidal activity and fumigant testing all run under Good Laboratory Practice, against the agriculturally and economically important pest species a product has to be effective on.
Resistance is treated as a first-class question rather than an afterthought: molecular assays detect insecticide resistance directly, and resistance monitoring, vector competence studies and pest risk assessment place a single product inside a longer epidemiological picture.
Capabilities
Three capability groups. 17 listed methods.
Every method below runs inside the same quality system, against the same archive, with the same chain of custody. Study designs are assembled from this catalogue rather than improvised around it.
Efficacy
7 methods
- Contact toxicity test
- Residual efficacy test
- Knockdown efficacy test
- Larvicidal activity test
- Adulticidal activity test
- Fumigant activity test
- Biopesticide efficacy testing
Repellency & exposure
5 methods
- Repellency test
- Direct application exposure testing
- Impregnated material testing
- Dose–response assays
- Mortality and fecundity assays
Resistance & surveillance
5 methods
- Insecticide susceptibility testing
- Molecular assays for insecticide resistance detection
- Resistance monitoring
- Vector competence studies
- Pest risk assessment
Specifications
On the record.
Guideline numbers, test species and instrument names are reproduced exactly as the laboratory publishes them, because a method is only portable across borders if it can be named precisely.
Test species
- Agriculturally and economically important pest species
Under accreditation
What governs this work.
Entomology operates inside the quality system audited under the certifications listed here.
- OECD GLP
Good Laboratory Practice certification
OECD GLPNGCMA, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
Compliance with OECD Principles of Good Laboratory Practice, the basis on which study reports are accepted across all OECD Mutual Acceptance of Data countries.
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Runs alongside
Nothing here works alone.
Most programmes cross three or four divisions. On one campus, under one quality system, that crossing costs a corridor rather than a shipment.