The widespread use of synthetic chemical pesticides beginning in the late 1930s has contributed to development insecticide resistance many important species pest insects and plants. Recent trends pesticide have emphasized more environmentally benign control methods that take into consideration environmental, food safety, human health. Biopesticides (e.g., naturally occurring pesticidal compound...

Tribolium confusum is one of the most common pests many commodities, especially cereals and their products. These are known for being destructive insect attacking infesting stored flour grain in soil, warehouses, grocery stores, homes. Therefore, this study aims to control these with an environmentally friendly, healthier, cost-effective pesticide instead artificial chemicals practice current m...

Sitophilus oryzae (Linnaeus) is a major pest of stored grain across Southeast Asia and is of increasing concern in other regions due to the advent of strong resistance to phosphine, the fumigant used to protect stored grain from pest insects. We investigated the inheritance of genes controlling resistance to phosphine in a strongly resistant S. oryzae strain (NNSO7525) collected in Australia an...

Two major stored products pests of maize are the Prostephanus truncatus (Horn) (larger grain borer) and Sitophilus zeamais (Motschulsky) (maize weevil). Under climate change, P. may be expected to shift its distribution northward farther into United States (US). Thus, there is a critical need develop diversified chemical control tools in post-harvest supply chain for these two species. In this ...

Entomopathogenic nematodes can provide effective biological control of several important soil insect pests that occur in cryptic habitats (Georgis and Manweiler, 1994; Koppenhofer, 2000). Favorable characteristics include formation of a durable infective stage that can be stored for long periods and applied by conventional methods, and persistence in the environment following application. In ad...