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8 March 2023 Glucose- and disaccharide-containing baits impede secondary mortality in glucose-averse German cockroaches
Samantha McPherson, Ayako Wada-Katsumata, Jules Silverman, Coby Schal
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Abstract

Glucose aversion in the German cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.), results in behavioral resistance to insecticidal baits. Glucose-averse (GA) cockroaches reject foods containing glucose, even in relatively low concentrations, which protects the cockroaches from ingesting lethal amounts of toxic baits. Horizontal transfer of baits and the resulting secondary mortality have been documented in German cockroaches, including in insecticide resistant strains. However, the effects of the GA trait on secondary mortality have not been investigated. We hypothesized that ingestion of insecticide baits that contain glucose or glucose-containing disaccharides would result in behaviorally relevant glucose levels in the feces, possibly deterring coprophagy by GA nymphs. We fed adult female cockroaches hydramethylnon baits rich in either glucose, fructose, sucrose, or maltose and compared secondary mortality of GA and wild-type (WT) nymphs via coprophagy. When adult females were fed baits containing glucose, sucrose, or maltose and their feces offered to nymphs, secondary mortality was significantly lower in GA nymphs than in WT nymphs. However, survival of GA and WT nymphs was similar on feces generated by adult females fed fructose bait. Analysis of feces indicated that disaccharides in baits were hydrolyzed into glucose, some of which was excreted in the feces of females that ingested the bait. Based on these results, we caution that baits containing glucose or glucose-containing oligosaccharides may impede cockroach interventions; while GA adults and large nymphs avoid ingesting such baits, first instars reject the glucose-containing feces of any WT cockroaches that consumed the bait.

Samantha McPherson, Ayako Wada-Katsumata, Jules Silverman, and Coby Schal "Glucose- and disaccharide-containing baits impede secondary mortality in glucose-averse German cockroaches," Journal of Economic Entomology 116(2), 546-553, (8 March 2023). https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toad030
Received: 21 December 2022; Accepted: 1 February 2023; Published: 8 March 2023
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KEYWORDS
bait
behavioral resistance
cockroach
insecticide resistance
secondary mortality
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