SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Below is a link to a poster entitled “Qcide®: Natural insecticides for the control of flying insects”  which was presented by Professor Peter Miller recently at the International Conference on Urban Pests (ICUP), held in Barcelona Spain.  Professor Miller was a co-author with Bryce Peters, both of the Faculty of Science at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), and Peter May, Bio-Gene’s Executive Director of Research & Development.  The poster presents results of UTS testing with Qcide against mosquitoes and houseflies, that represent two of the major pest groups impacting public health globally.

Laboratory spray tests were used to establish dose responses that demonstrated the lethal concentrations of Qcide required to both knockdown and kill insects when exposed to Qcide spray treatment.  Time to achieve knockdown was also an important measure used in the tests.

These results clearly demonstrate the effectiveness of Qcide against flying insects that would be further improved with formulation development and enhanced aerosol application systems.  Qcide can also be used against crawling insects and offers potential to address the widespread issue of insecticide resistance present in public health pests and to act as a “resistance breaker” in integrated pest management (IPM) programs.

Below is a link to an article in the April 2020 issue of BioScience, Volume 70, Issue 4 titled “Medical Entomologists: A Vanishing Species: Experts needed to combat vector-borne diseases in North America”

Below is a link to an article in the December 2019-January 2020 Pest + Magazine on “How has mosquito control changed since the millennium?w has mosquito control changed since the millennium?”

Below is a link to a presentation given by Executive Director R&D at the James Cook University Collaborate Conference held in Cairns in October 2019

Below is a link to a presentation given by Dr. Manoj Nayak, Leader of the Postharvest Grain Protection Unit within the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland Government, at the 12th Conference of the International Organisation for Biological Control (IOBC) West Palearctic Regional Section WPRS -Integrated Protection of Stored Products, Pisa, Italy 4th -6th September 2019 on results on testing of Flavocide

Below is a link to a Daily News article on Dengue Fever, Chikungunya & Zika viruses

Below is a link to a 3 minute video from CropLife International and the  Insecticide Resistance Action Committee (IRAC) explaining resistance

Below is a link to a presentation that was made by Professors Peter Miller and Bryce Peters of the University of Technology, Sydney at the 9th International Conference on Urban Pests, in Birmingham, UK in July 2017

Below is a link to an article which appeared in International Pest Control magazine Nov/Dec 2016 issue