Pest Management Professional, March 2014
USDA Forest Service Termiticide Report for 2013 Thomas Shelton Donald Fye and Michael Ulyshen Contributors I n the United States termiticides are considered for federal registration by the Environmental Protection Agency EPA based in part on the results of fiveyear small plot field efficacy tests performed by the U S Department of Agriculture Forest Service USDA FS This work is done by the Insects Diseases and Invasive Plants IDIP Research Work Unit RWU SRS 4552 on four national field sites in Arizona Florida Mississippi and South Carolina The termite portion of the IDIP RWU was initiated by Thomas E Snyder during the late 1930s Dr Snyder was honored posthumously with induction into the Pest Management Professional Hall of Fame this past year PMP Oct 2013 For more than 75 years the USDA FS has evaluated termiticides in its ongoing termiticide testing program Currently its managing five continuing agreements with product manufacturers in 2013 The number of products Native subterranean termites installed on USDA FS field sites since 1985 is illustrated in Fig 1 The number of new products installed during the past few years has diminished For example in 2013 one candidate product was installed on two field sites This reduction will be seen in the termiticide market during the next few years as fewer new products will be available to compete with older products This situation was discussed previously in the 2011 Termiticide Report PMP Feb 2012 Five field testing agreements were still active in 2013 representing four candidate products Test Methods Two test protocols are designated for efficacy evaluations of soil applied termiticides the ground board and concrete slab field tests are specified by EPAs Product Performance Test Guideline OPPTS 8103600 At each of the four national locations each test type is replicated 10 times for each termiticide concentration tested Continued on page 44 Figure 1 Number of candidate termiticides installed at USDA FS test sites 42 March 2014 Pest Management Professional www mypmp net
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