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Influence of the Trap's Depth and Meteorological Parameters on Population Fluctuations of Psammotermes hypostoma (Desneux) (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) Workers

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Last updated: 25 Dec 2024

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Environmental impacts of agriculture and forestry

Abstract

There is a gap in knowledge regarding the impact of trap depths on Psammotermes hypostoma (Desneux) population variations. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of trap depths and some physical parameters on worker population fluctuations. From September 2019 to August 2020, 1300, El-Sebay-modified traps within Poly Vinyl Chloride (P.V.C.) tubes were used at several depths of 10 cm, to 150 cm in Qena City, Egypt. Furthermore, temperatures and relative humidity % were assessed using the Pearson correlation coefficient. The current findings illustrated the highest percentage (34.04%) at 10 cm depth, inversely, the lowest was (7.24%) at 100 cm depth. Interestingly, the 36th week (April) at 50 cm depth had the highest mean number of individuals (234.60 ± 12.9). Although, at 10 cm depth, the lowest mean number of individuals was 0.20 ± 0.20 in the 19th week. On the other hand, result analysis demonstrated that both maximum and minimum temperatures had a substantial positive effect on the worker activity at 10 cm depth where r = 0.333 and 0.318, respectively. However, there was a significant negative effect at 150 cm depth between the maximum, and minimum temperatures. Additionally, RH% had a significant positive effect at 150 cm depth and a negative significant effect at 10 and 50 cm depths, respectively. Thus, it's concluded that the abundance of individuals is inversely proportional to the soil depth furthermore temperature, and directly the relative humidity. So, in the future, this could be a viable result for managing subterranean termites.

DOI

10.21608/svuijas.2022.133049.1204

Keywords

meteorological parameters, Psammotermes hypostoma, Subterranean termites, trap depth

Authors

First Name

M.Z.Y

Last Name

Aly

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Affiliation

Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, South Valley University, 83523 Qena, Egypt

Email

mzakyyaly21@yahoo.com

City

Qena

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First Name

K.S.M.

Last Name

Osman

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-

Affiliation

Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, South Valley University, 83523 Qena, Egypt

Email

khaledsae@yahoo.com

City

Qna

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First Name

Elham S.S.

Last Name

Ibrahim

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, South Valley University, 83523 Qena, Egypt

Email

elhamsaad331@gmail.com

City

Qena

Orcid

-

First Name

A.M.M.

Last Name

Badawy

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-

Affiliation

Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, South Valley University, 83523 Qena, Egypt

Email

amr.badawy@sci.svu.edu.eg

City

Qena

Orcid

0000-0002-4561-2647

Volume

4

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

32560

Issue Date

2022-04-01

Receive Date

2022-04-13

Publish Date

2022-05-16

Page Start

151

Page End

163

Print ISSN

2636-3801

Online ISSN

2636-381X

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https://svuijas.journals.ekb.eg/article_237706.html

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1,132

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SVU-International Journal of Agricultural Sciences

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

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Influence of the Trap's Depth and Meteorological Parameters on Population Fluctuations of Psammotermes hypostoma (Desneux) (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) Workers

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22 Jan 2023