Year: 2021 | Month: September | Volume 14 | Issue 3
Botanical Management of Rust Red Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) on Stored Wheat
Gulappa Chandra Sekar
Kh. Ibohal Singh
Nisanam Nagaraju
Loganathan R.
N. Okendro Singh
L. Nongdrenkhombha Singh
DOI:10.30954/0974-1712.03.2021.14
Abstract:
The current study on Botanical Management of Rust Red flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) on stored wheat during 2020-2021 in the Entomology Department revealed that neem leaf powder was the most effective treatment, observed the mean adult mortality of 67.22 per cent and also records the minimum weight loss after 60 days of storage. The eucalyptus and tulsi can be used as next best treatment in controlling the adult emergence. Whereas, turmeric rhizome powder was the least effective in comparison to control against adult mortality (30.56 %), grain weight loss and adult emergence owing to T. castaneum. Other than this the chemical insecticide, fenvalerate used as a check showed a greater result than botanical powders with mean adult mortality of T. castaneum was 72.78 percent.
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