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Record W4414460211 · doi:10.1093/ee/nvaf082

Behavior of wireworms (Coleoptera: Elateridae) exposed to wheat seed treated with novel (broflanilide, isocycloseram) and previously registered insecticides in a soil bioassay

2025· article· en· W4414460211 on OpenAlexafffund
Willem G. van Herk, Robert S. Vernon, Bobbi Vojtko, Shelby Snow, Andrea Chee, Amber Burnett

Bibliographic record

VenueEnvironmental Entomology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicInsect and Pesticide Research
Canadian institutionsNative Mental Health Association of CanadaAgriculture and Agri-Food Canada
FundersAgriculture and Agri-Food Canada
KeywordsFipronilThiamethoxamBioassayPyrethroidCropSeed treatmentChlorpyrifosLindane

Abstract

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Following the de-registration of lindane as a cereal crop seed treatment for wireworm control in North America, most of the research efforts to find replacements have focused on neonicotinoid, diamide, pyrethroid, phenyl pyrazole, and most recently, meta-diamide and isoxazoline insecticide classes. Although insecticides within these classes have been shown to provide cereal crop protection from wireworm damage, not all insecticides will significantly reduce wireworm populations in the field. To investigate this, we exposed wireworms (Agriotes obscurus L. and Agriotes lineatus L.) to wheat seeds treated with insecticides in the above insecticide classes in soil bioassays in the lab, with a focus on the newly developed meta-diamide broflanilide and the isoxazoline isocycloseram. Various wireworm behaviors (eg repellency) were observed in soil window studies for 3 h, and symptoms of toxicity were recorded upon wireworm removal at 24 h and again at 7 d. No repellency was recorded from seed treated with broflanilide, isocycloseram, thiamethoxam (neonicotinoid), cyantraniliprole (diamide), and fipronil (phenyl pyrazole), but moderate repellency occurred with the pyrethroid λ-cyhalothrin. After 24 h exposure, thiamethoxam, cyantraniliprole, and λ-cyhalothrin treatments had elicited only minor morbidity symptoms, which had mostly disappeared after 7 d. Broflanilide, isocycloseram, and fipronil treatments, however, progressed from initial minor morbidity symptoms to more irreversible morbidity symptoms after 7 d. These data and earlier lab and field trials explain why field populations of wireworms are reduced by broflanilide, isocycloseram, and fipronil treatments relative to neonicotinoid, diamide, and pyrethroid insecticides.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.446
Threshold uncertainty score0.384

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.239
Teacher spread0.221 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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