About the Authors

Galen P. Dively

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

P. Dilip Venugopal

venugopal.dilip@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science and Technology Policy Fellowship Program, Transportation and Climate Division, Office of Transportation & Air Quality, United States Environmental Protection Agency, District of Columbia, United States of America

Chad Finkenbinder

Affiliation Benzon Research Inc., Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

We have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Although this research and the preparation of this article was not financially supported by organizations that may gain or lose financially through its publication, one of the author (GPD) has received financial support for other research or consulting from companies including Syngenta, Monsanto, Bayer CropScience, Dow AgroScience, and Pioneer/DuPont. CF is an employee of Benzon Research Inc., an independent contract research laboratory that specializes in bioassays of insect control agents and laboratory efficacy testing. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GPD. Data curation: GPD PDV. Formal analysis: GPD PDV. Funding acquisition: GPD CF. Investigation: GPD PDV CF. Methodology: GPD PDV CF. Project administration: GPD CF. Resources: GPD PDV CF. Supervision: GPD. Validation: GPD CF. Visualization: PDV. Writing – original draft: PDV GPD. Writing – review & editing: PDV GPD CF.