Pest Management Professional, May 2018
USFS termiticide rePOrt 80 years of termiticide testing The U S Forest Service testing program has provided standardized test data on soil applied termiticides for eight decades and counting P est Management Professional PMP Hall of Famer Dr T E Tommie Termite Snyder joined the U S Department of Agricultures USDAs Bureau of Entomology soon after receiving his masters degree from Yale in 1909 In 1934 he was transferred to New Orleans to establish the Forest Entomology Laboratory at the Southern Forest Experiment Station considered to be the first such lab in the South As his industry nickname suggests the then 49 year old Dr Snyder was keenly interested in forest insects subterranean termites in particular It was Dr Snyder who hired Dr Harmon Johnny Johnston in 1938 appointing him as a research entomologist on the Harrison Experimental Forest near Gulfport Miss During his tenure Dr Johnston developed the groundboard test and began studies using this method Data from these tests provided the U S military with a means of controlling termite infestations in wooden storage containers and semi temporary buildings built during World War II Because of increased termite pressure and different species compared with North America this information was of great importance in the Pacific theater The USDAs Forest Services USFS termite unit continued this work after the war providing efficacy data for various candidate termiticides This effort continues today although the methods have evolved to incorporate the concrete slab test in addition to the original groundboard test What follows is the formal summary of the USFS annually collected termiticide field efficacy data for 2017 Fig 1 Number of candidate termiticides installed each year by the USFS termiticide testing program Program status Fig 1 illustrates the number of products installed by the USFS testing program each year separated into products installed per site which is necessary to accommodate mid year installations The report also includes two tables that provide data for the currently federally labeled termiticides on the U S market today Occasionally a candidate termiticide manufacturer will decide to withdraw a product from testing Our policy has been to not report on any products that do not obtain federal registration due either to withdrawal or a products failure to meet the U S Environmental Protection Agencys EPAs performance standards This prevents confusion and possible off label use Charts UsFs Photo istoCk Com viiwee By Dr thomas shelton DonalD Fye Dr Juliet tang anD Dr mark mankowski Contributors 70 May 2018 Pest Management Professional mypmp net
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