Using different amounts of vacuum and acrolein in various exposure periods to control two stored products insects |
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| Authors: | Mojtaba Ghane Jahromi Ali Asgar Pourmirza Golam Reza Sadeghi Seyed Ali Hoseini |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Plant Protection , Urmia University , Urmi , Iran hoseini_s_a@yahoo.com;3. Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Plant Protection , Urmia University , Urmi , Iran |
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| Abstract: | In this research, adults of Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) and Rhyzopertha dominica (Fabricius) were exposed to various air pressures solely (first phase) and air pressures together with acrolein (second phase) in various durations and mortality rates were determined. Complete mortality of T. castaneum was obtained at 1, 3 and 6 h after exposure to 10, 30 and 50 mmHg, respectively. R. dominica showed 96.25% and 60% mortality during 3 and 10 h exposed to 10 and 30 mmHg, respectively. Percentage mortality of the insects in second phase was significantly higher than the rate in first phase. T. castaneum was more susceptible than R. dominica in the both phases. |
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| Keywords: | fumigant acrolein vacuum stored products insects |
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