Disruptive Impacts of Selected Insecticides on Larval Haemogram parameters of the Red Palm Weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Sh., Hamadah Kh.; A., Tanani M.

doi:10.21608/eajbsa.2017.24847

	Disruptive Impacts of Selected Insecticides on Larval Haemogram parameters of the Red Palm Weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences. A, Entomology
Article 9, Volume 10, Issue 8, December 2017, Page 85-97 PDF (542.64 K)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/eajbsa.2017.24847
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Authors
Hamadah Kh. Sh.; Tanani M. A.
Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Madenit Nasr, Cairo, Egypt
Abstract
The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of three insecticides,pyriproxyfen (admeral), neemazal (azadirachtin) and spinetoram (Radiant), against the red palm weevil Rhynchophorus ferrugineus. Two sublethal concentrations of each compound had been estimated in a preliminary test: LC₅₀: 1067.5 ppm, LC₇₅: 2317.5 ppm (pyriproxyfen), LC₅₀: 14600 ppm, LC₇₅: 27100 ppm (neemazal), LC₅₀: 18.37 ppm, LC₇₅: 88.60 ppm (spinetoram). These concentrations were tested against the immune cells (Total hemocyte count, Differential hemocyte count and hemocyte deformations). Depending on the present study, five types of hemocytes were observed as prohemocyte, granulocyte, plasmatocyte, oenocyte and spherulocyte. Total hemocyte count was significantly increased irrespective to the insecticide. All insecticide induced the prohemocyte while the other types were declined. However, the tested insecticide exhibited pathological symptoms on insect haemocytes morphology in the cell membrane, cytoplasm and nucleus. v
Keywords
Total haemocyte count; Differential haemocyte count; Rhynchophorus ferrugineus; Pyriproxyfen; neemazal; Spinetoram


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