Beta
226216

Toxicity of traditional and bio-insecticides against subterranean termite, Psammotermes hypostoma Desneux under laboratory conditions

Article

Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

Plant protection

Abstract

Subterranean termite, Psammotermes hypostoma Desneux causes valuable economic damage in cellulose materials in Aswan governorate, Egypt. The present work was conducted to evaluate the toxicity of seven chemical and certain plant extracts namely, chlorpyrifos, emamectin benzoate, deltamethrin, fipronil, imidacloprid, spinetoram diflubenzuron and entomopathogenic fungi (Metarhizium anisopliae, Beauveria bassiana) and conventional plant extract (chili extract, garlic extract )  and nano silver plant extract (chili extract AgNps, garlic extract AgNps) against subterranean termite, Psammotermes hypostoma using cardboard-dip bioassay technique under laboratory conditions. The results show that, the ranke of tested insecticides against P. hypostoma after 24, 48 and 72 h has the same descending order as follow chlorpyrifos> emamectin benzoate> deltamethrin> fipronil> imidacloprid> spinetoram> diflubenzuron> chili extract AgNPs> garlic extract AgNPs> chili extract > garlic extract. On the other hand, the fungi M. ansiopliae was more effectiveness than B. bassiana against P. hypostoma which the mortality rates after 7day were 25% and 17.5% to M. anisopliae and B. bassiana, respectively. After 14 days of treatments with increased period the result shows the mortality rates were 38.3%and 29.1% to Metarhizium anisopliae and Beauveria bassiana, respectively. While, after 21 days of treatment, the results show the mortality rates were 55.8% and 48.3% to M. ansiopliae and B. bassiana, respectively. Several new insecticides are promising in control termites with chlorpyrifos like emamectin benzoate, a biopesticides.  Further, studies should be done about the mixture effect of chlorpyrifos with plant extracts and bioagents for reducing the hazard effects of chlorpyrifos insecticide.

DOI

10.21608/svuijas.2022.111021.1161

Keywords

Subterranean termite, insecticide, plant extract, Entomopathogenic fungi, Cardboard-dip bioassay

Authors

First Name

I.R.M.

Last Name

El-Zoghby

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Aswan University, 81528 Aswan, Egypt.

Email

islam@asw.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

R.O.H

Last Name

Allam

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, South Valley University, Qena 83523, Egypt

Email

refat@agr.svu.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Dina L.M.

Last Name

Mahrouse

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Aswan University, 81528 Aswan, Egypt

Email

dina@asw.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

G.A.M.

Last Name

Abdu-Allah

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, 83523 Assiut Egypt

Email

gamal@agr.assuit.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

4

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

28927

Issue Date

2022-01-01

Receive Date

2021-12-15

Publish Date

2022-01-01

Page Start

179

Page End

193

Print ISSN

2636-3801

Online ISSN

2636-381X

Link

https://svuijas.journals.ekb.eg/article_226216.html

Detail API

https://svuijas.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=226216

Order

21

Type

Original Article

Type Code

1,132

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

SVU-International Journal of Agricultural Sciences

Publication Link

https://svuijas.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Toxicity of traditional and bio-insecticides against subterranean termite, Psammotermes hypostoma Desneux under laboratory conditions

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023