Effect of Ozone Gas on the Red Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) | ||||
| Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences. A, Entomology | ||||
| Article 5, Volume 10, Issue 4 - Serial Number 1, June 2017, Page 57-2 PDF (247.35 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/eajbsa.2017.12484 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Mohamed M. Abd El-Ghaffar1; Hamdy A. Mohamed1; Ibrahim I. Ibrahim1; Abdou A. Garamoon2; Hassan A. Gad1 | ||||
| 1Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture. Al-Azhar Univ. Egypt | ||||
| 2Center of Plasma Technology, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar Univ. Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Red flour beetle, T. castaneum (Herbst) is worldwide and most destructive pest of stored products and is cosmopolitan in distribution. It is the most common pest of wheat flour. It also causes serious damage upon dried fruits, pulses and prepared cereal foods. Larvae and adults of this pest were treated with ozone as a gas at three concentrations (1, 3, and 5 g/m3) for six different periods (0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 h.) compared with untreated insects. The results indicated that increasing the concentration and exposure period led to increasing the rate of mortality for both tested stages moreover to latent effect of ozone on pupation and adult emergence of this insect pest. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Ozone; Tribolium castaneum; Wheat Flour; stored product insects | ||||
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