Farmers in Nepal lose up to one-third of stored grain pests and diseases. This results food insecurity loss income. To mitigate these losses, farmers use several approaches including pesticide applications on grains. We interviewed 241 Bagmati Province, Nepal, assess the current on-farm storage practices challenges improve postharvest management. The show that rice was most crop (median 1150 kg...

The COVID-19 pandemic led to significant changes in societies across the globe. In many countries Europe, national lockdowns during spring of 2020 meant that museums were closed, and maintenance housekeeping at a minimum. We compared insect monitoring data 15 around Vienna between years 2018 2022 see potential effects two (spring winter 2020/21) on populations. Vienna, these altered presence pe...

ethiopia is remarkably rich in its biological, ecological and landscape diversity and is home to outstanding natural bio-resources such as a number of herbs, aromatic and medicinal plants. the present study was carried out to study the composition, distribution and economic importance of insect pests of prioritized aromatic (mentha sp., lemon verbena, fennel, rosemary, rosadamascene, oregano, p...

Contamination of cereal commodities by moulds and mycotoxins results in dry matter, quality, and nutritional losses and represents a significant hazard to the food chain. Most grain is harvested, dried and then stored on farm or in silos for medium/long term storage. Cereal quality is influenced by a range of interacting abiotic and biotic factors. In the so-called stored grain ecosystem, facto...

chemical insecticides have been widely employed for the control of storage grain pests. this has caused such problems as insecticide resistance along with contamination of foodstuffs with chemical residues. thus, there is a growing interest in using pathogenic control agents as alternative. in this study, the potential of beauveria bassiana (bbweevil™, a commercial product containing 2×109 coni...

This study was conducted to determine the effect of low temperatures on different biological stages adzuki bean weevil (Callosobruchus chinensis L., Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in stored chickpea seeds. Different extreme were tested for eggs, larvae, pupae and adults all experiments with exposure times. For adults, 100% death obtained after 45 minutes at -16 °C, 30 -20 °C 20 -26 °C. LT95 value d...

RISKS TO THE ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY POSED BY RESISTANT PESTS Many general questions and observations were made concerning the risk of pests, especially insect pests to a crop containing a transgenic pesticide, e.g., the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin. If pests cannot be controlled, food and fiber crops will be jeopardized and may negatively impact society throughout the world. As a result, ...

Botanical pesticides have been used for the control of agricultural pests since antiquity, especially in biodiversity-rich countries. However, so far very limited products based on botanicals are commercially available due to lack practical evidence, availability raw materials at affordable prices, chemical standardization, molecular mechanism action, and strict legislation. The recent reports ...