Toxicity of Imidacloprid Administered Alone and in Combination with Heavy Metal Lead on Silkworm, Bombyx mori (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae)
Sehrish Akram1, Abida Butt1* and Shakil Ahmad Khan2
1Department of Zoology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
2Sericulture Research Lab, 108 Ravi Road, Lahore, Pakistan
* Corresponding author: abidajawed.zool@pu.edu.pk
Fig. 1.
Dose-effect curves of Lead (Pb), imidacloprid commercial formulation (IMF), imidacloprid technical grade (IMT) on different instars of silkworm after 48 h exposure.
Fig. 2.
Plot of the combination index versus the effect produced by Pb-imidacloprid binary mixtures against different instars of silkworm.