Test Species
Species Used in Our Efficacy Assessments
CLBR offers comprehensive bioassay services for a wide range of medically important insects, home pests, and garden pests, supporting product development, repellent testing, and EPA registration. Our expertise includes 25(b) biopesticide testing, essential oil-based repellent screening, and new active ingredient efficacy assays.
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We conduct knockdown, repellency, and mortality bioassays using state-of-the-art methods such as Arm-in-Cage (AIC), Contactless AIC, spatial repellent trials, Y-Tube assays, human subject testing, and field efficacy trials.
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We work with species like the Aedes aegypti (mosquitoes), Ixodes scapularis (ticks), blackfly, cockroaches, clothes moths, aphids, and many others. Our services support repellent product development, biopesticide registration, and comparative testing of sprays, lotions, and aerosols against mosquitoes, ticks, blackflies, midges, cockroaches, ants, beetles, and more.
Laboratory assay
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Field assay

Medically important insects
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Common malaria mosquito - Anopheles quadrimaculatus
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Southern house mosquito - Culex quinquefasciatus
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Diptera: Yellow fever mosquito - Aedes aegypti
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Lone star tick - Amblyomma americanum
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Deer tick - Ixodes scapularis
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Brown dog tick - Rhipicephalus sanguineus
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Wood tick - Dermacentor variabilis
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Biting midges / No-see-ums - Ceratopogonidae (family)
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Chiggers - Tunga penetrans
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Blackfly - Simuliidae (family)
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Lice - Pediculus humanus humanus
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Bedbug - Cimex lectularius
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Stable fly - Stomoxys calcitrans

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Green peach aphid - Myzus persicae
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Oleander aphid - Aphis nerii
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Cabbage aphid - Brevicoryne brassicae
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Whitefly - Bemisia tabaci
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Slugs - Various species (e.g., Deroceras reticulatum)
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Snails - Various species (e.g., Cornu aspersum)
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Mealybugs - Pseudococcidae (family)
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Two-spotted spider mite - Tetranychus urticae
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House cricket - Acheta domesticus
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Earwig - Forficula auricularia
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Harlequin bug - Murgantia histrionica
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Brown marmorated stink bug - Halyomorpha halys
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Bagrada bug - Bagrada hilaris

Garden pests

Home pests
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Indian mealmoth - Plodia interpunctella
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Clothes moth - Tinea pellionella
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Black widow - Latrodectus mactans
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American cockroach - Periplaneta americana
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Oriental cockroach - Blatta orientalis
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German cockroach - Blattella germanica
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House fly - Musca domestica
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Carpet beetle - Anthrenus verbasci
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Fruit fly - Drosophila melanogaster
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Fungus gnat - Sciaridae (family)
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Mealworm - Tenebrio molitor
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Red flour beetle - Tribolium castaneum
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Silverfish - Lepisma saccharinum
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Termites - Isoptera (infraorder)
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Argentine ant - Linepithema humile