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...

the leopard moth, zeuzera pyrina (l.) (lepidoptera: cossidae) is a serious pest of walnut and apple trees in iran. one of the control methods for this pest is the mass trapping of males using pheromone traps. to determine the best size and color of traps, four different colors (green, yellow, white, gray) and two different sizes (delta shape with standard adhesive surface, 19 × 22 cm and trapez...

diatomaceous earth (de) is a dust composed of fossilized bodies of unicellular algae used as an insecticide. in this study, the insecticidal potential of four iranian de deposits was assessed in adults of oryzaephilus surinamensis (l.). three of de deposits were collected from maragheh, mamaghan, and khorasan jonoobi mines and sayan® formulation was obtained from kimia sabz avar company. the in...

Five local spices (Piper guineense, Allium sativum, Afromomum melequata, Xylopia aethiopica and Tetrapleura tetraptera) were evaluated in the laboratory for their ability to protect stored maize against infestation by S. zeamais. Ground products of the spices were applied as direct admixtures at two concentration levels of 1% and 5% to assess for mortality, progeny emergence, damage and repelle...

Mediterranean flour moth, Ephestia kuehniella, is a cosmopolitan pest of stored products, and its eggs are widely used to rear parasitoids and predators for biological control programmes. This experiment investigated how larval population density affected the survival rate and reproductive output of this species under four rearing densities ( larva per 2 g food per vial; or 00, 500 or 000 larva...

Pest control massive use of synthetic pesticides has imposed so many detrimental effects on the environment and cause intoxication of non-targeting organisms. An attractive alternative solution to this problem is to employ natural products for control in agroecosystem, in the form of a preventive strategy against pest attack on agricultural products. Hences, the present study aimed to find out ...

The need for effective plant and pest quarantines between continents, regions and countries as well as even within states is no longer considered to be a controversial topic. The objective of this task is to achieve and make a significant contribution to the management of pest fruit flies in horticulture products at quarantines for international markets. Fruit flies cause considerably serious d...