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JOURNAL OF STORED PRODUCTS RESEARCH
Volume 43, Issue 4, Pages 468-473Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspr.2006.12.008
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enhanced diatomaceous earth; Sitophilus oryzae; Rhyzopertha dominica; Tribolium castaneum; Cryptolestes ferrugineus; stored wheat
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Two new natural diatomaceous earth (DE) formulations, enhanced with abamectin (DEA-P/WP), or bitterbarkomycin (DEBBMP/WP), were tested under laboratory conditions against adults of the rice weevil, Sitophilus oryzae, the lesser grain borer, Rhyzopertha dominica, the red flour beetle, Triboliton castaneum and the rusty grain beetle, Cryptolestes ferrugineus. The bioassays were carried out on wheat, at 30 +/- 1 degrees C and 70 +/- 5% r.h. The two enhanced DEs were applied either as dusts (P) or as wettable powders (WP) at the dose rates of 75, 100 125 and 150 ppm. Adult mortality was assessed after 14 and 21 d of exposure on the treated substrate. After this interval, the treated wheat was retained for an additional period of 49 d in the case of S. oryzae and 153 d in the case of the other three species, in order to evaluate progeny production. Generally, for all species tested, mortality was higher on wheat treated with powders in comparison with wettable solutions. After 14 d of exposure, all adult rice weevils were dead even at the lowest dose rate of DEA-P, while 100% mortality was noted at doses >= 125 ppm of DEBBM-P. For the other species, mortality was 100% on wheat treated with 75 pprn of DEBBM-P, with the exception of T. castaneum for which all adults were dead at doses >= 100 ppm. Progeny production was low, and no progeny were produced in the cases of R. dominica and C ferrugineus, for both DEs. However, for S. oryzae, progeny production was high on wheat treated with WP formulations, at dose rates <= 100 ppm. Similar trends were noted for T castaneum, at <= 100 ppm of DEBBM-WP. The results of the present study indicate that both DEA-P/WP and DEBBM-P/WP are rnore effective against the four beetle species examined in comparison with the currently commercially available DE formulations. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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