Abstract
Since the initial suggestion of using insect hormones or their mimics as the third-generation insecticides, great strides have been made in the discovery of three classes of such insect growth-disrupting insecticides. We propose the use of the term “insect growth disruptors” instead of the mis-named term “insect growth regulators”. We review the commercial insecticides that mimic the mode of action of the insect growth and development hormones, the sesquiterpenoid juvenile hormones and the steroidal 20-hydroxyecdysone and the third class of insecticides that disrupt growth and development by interfering with chitin synthesis in target insect pests. In this chapter, the emphasis is on the application of these insecticides to control insect pests and development of resistance. Since the non-steroidal ecdysone agonist insecticides have been extensively reviewed in other chapters of this volume and elsewhere, only salient features of these novel insecticides are discussed.
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