Methoprene and other IGRs are widely used larvicides in regular rotation for mosquito abatement in the US. Larvicide resistance monitoring is a common deficit among all programs, but is daunting when the active ingredient is not well understood in the testing environment. To help translate and make the bioassays for working with methoprene more accessible, we extrapolated usage patterns to the label rates, and how that may line up with dose response data using methoprene. In testing with field and lab strains using both technical grade and formulated product, correlations were made between inputs to try to understand suitable benchmarking approaches that can work with the products a district already has on hand . The end goal is to simplify lab handling of methoprene as much as possible and make evaluation accessible even without most specialty resources.
