%0 Journal Article %T Insecticide Resistance in Urban Pests with Emphasis on Urban Pests Re-sistance in Iran: A Review %A Hamid Kassiri %A Rouhullah Dehghani %A Kobra Doostifar %A Davarkhah Rabbani %A Mojtaba Limoee %A Nahid Chaharbaghi %J Entomology and Applied Science Letters %@ 2349-2864 %D 2020 %V 7 %N 3 %P 32-54 %X Introduction and Objectives: Pests may transmit deadly parasites or pathogens to humans or cause illness, pain and suffering through bites and stings, infected wounds or allergic reactions. Chemical pesticides are considered as the main pest control tool. Insect resistance to the synthetic insecticide occurred following extensive use of this chemical to control pests. Insecticide resistance is a basic threat to urban pest management in the world, to design more applicable Insecticide Resistance Management (IRM) strategies in urban ecosystems. It is necessary to determine the pesticides used for urban pest control and identify various mechanisms underlying insecticide resistance by the pests. Materials and Methods: The review search was performed on the medical and health-related literature. Our search strategy provided us with a total of 374 studies, of which 108 of them were excluded and a total of 266 papers were analyzed and presented in this review article. Results: The common insecticides used to control four urban insect pests: house fly, German cockroach, mosquitoes and scorpions will be described. We will also discuss different mechanisms cussed resistance developed by these pests. Conclusions: The extensive application of insecticides and increasing the pesticide resistance species cause high economic costs and threaten human health. Environment improvement programs to make an undesirable condition for growing arthropods had a reduction effect on the pest population. As well as alternative technologies such as genetic and biological approaches have the potential to control the pest abundance in urban ecosystems. The application of any technology to control the pest to improve human health should not have side-effects on the environment. %U https://easletters.com/article/insecticide-resistance-in-urban-pests-with-emphasis-on-urban-pests-re-sistance-in-iran-a-review