The Attraction of Stored Grain Pests Toward Various Colour Surfaces
Bugti, G., Memon, S., Khaliq, G., Parwaiz, G., Ali, I., Jaffar, M. (2021). The Attraction of Stored Grain Pests Toward Various Colour Surfaces. EKB Journal Management System, 14(3), 29-34. doi: 10.21608/eajbsa.2021.184971
Ghulam Ali Bugti; Shafique Ahmed Memon; Ghulam Khaliq; Gulkhanda Parwaiz; Intazar Ali; Muhammad Abuzar Jaffar. "The Attraction of Stored Grain Pests Toward Various Colour Surfaces". EKB Journal Management System, 14, 3, 2021, 29-34. doi: 10.21608/eajbsa.2021.184971
Bugti, G., Memon, S., Khaliq, G., Parwaiz, G., Ali, I., Jaffar, M. (2021). 'The Attraction of Stored Grain Pests Toward Various Colour Surfaces', EKB Journal Management System, 14(3), pp. 29-34. doi: 10.21608/eajbsa.2021.184971
Bugti, G., Memon, S., Khaliq, G., Parwaiz, G., Ali, I., Jaffar, M. The Attraction of Stored Grain Pests Toward Various Colour Surfaces. EKB Journal Management System, 2021; 14(3): 29-34. doi: 10.21608/eajbsa.2021.184971

The Attraction of Stored Grain Pests Toward Various Colour Surfaces

Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences. A, Entomology
Article 3, Volume 14, Issue 3, September 2021, Page 29-34  XML PDF (665.27 K)
DOI: 10.21608/eajbsa.2021.184971
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Authors
Ghulam Ali Bugti1; Shafique Ahmed Memon2; Ghulam Khaliq3; Gulkhanda Parwaiz4; Intazar Ali5; Muhammad Abuzar Jaffar3
1Department of Entomology, lasbela University of Agriculture water and marine sciences Uthal. Pakistan
2Department of Entomology, Lasbela University of Agriculture, Water and Marine Sciences, Uthal, Balochistan, Pakistan
3Department of Horticulture, Lasbela University of Agriculture, Water and Marine Sciences, Uthal, Balochistan, Pakistan
4Department of Entomology, Lasbela University of Agriculture, Water and Marine Sciences, Uthal, Balochistan, Pakistan.
5Department of Entomology, Lasbela University of Agriculture, Water and Marine Sciences, Uthal, Balochistan, Pakistan -Department of entomology, Faculty of Agriculture & Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, 63100, Pakistan
Abstract
Colour vision is common phenomenon in living animals, but varies in insect species, depending on their vision sensitivity and photoreceptors involved. The sensitivity of the photoreceptor is determined through the absorption of visual colour pigments expressed. Photoreceptors are involved in filtering pigments, transverse wavelength, retinal image and colour signals. We have evaluated the colour attraction of two important stored grains insects, Red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum H) and Pulse beetle (Callosobruchus chinensis L) to determine their visual sensitivity toward various colour surfaces. The data was recorded after 24hrs of releasing the insects in a chamber in which various colour surfaces were provided. The results showed that the T. castaneum was highly attracted toward green colour with maximum (17.3%) and (8.7%) of insects observed outside and inside the bags respectively. Whereas, minimum (4.3%) and (3.0%) T. castaneum found outside and inside the blue colour bags respectively. Similarly, C. chinensis was greatly attracted toward blue colour with the maximum (16.0%) and (7.7%) insects found attached outside and inside the bags respectively. Whereas, minimum (9.0%) and (2.0%) C. chinensis were recorded outside and inside the black colour bags respectively. 
Keywords
Tribolium castaneum; Callosobruchus chinensis; stored grains pest, colour surfaces; attraction
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