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Potentiality Assessment of The Activity of Scorpion Venom as An Insecticide Towards Spodoptera frugiperda: Histological and Electron Microscopy Studies

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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There are thousands of arthropods around us in all environments, which are considered pests and cause many diseases in humans, animals, and plants. It also contributes to the damage to many agricultural crops around the world. Harmful arthropods are controlled using chemical pesticides, which cause great harm to human health and expose them to many risks. Modern science is now turning to the use of bio-insecticides, which use living organisms and their derivatives for control and are showing promising results. In this work, we used scorpion venom as an insecticide because scorpion venom contains many polypeptides that affect the prey and cause paralysis and death. We studied the outcome of scorpion venom on the larvae that infect corn sweet and cause many losses annually, and the venom as an insecticide showed promising results. Its composition is a rich source of small, highly effective insecticidal proteins that absorb or kill insects. Our results revealed that scorpion venom as an insecticide against Spodoptera frugiperda had a considerable and great effect. After four days of scorpion venom application on S.  frugiperda   larvae, macroscopical, histological, and scanning electron microscopy examinations revealed a significant reduction in insects until death. Conclusion: scorpion venom showed hopeful insecticidal activity and suitable toxic advantages as associated with other recognized insecticide sets.

DOI

10.21608/eajbsd.2023.325815

Keywords

Scorpion venom, insecticide, Spodoptera frugiperda, Histological, electron microscopy

Authors

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Fatma El-Zahraa

Last Name

Abd El-Aziz

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A.

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Zoology and Entomology Departments, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, 71516 Assiut, Egypt.

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f_abdelhameed@yahoo.com

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Egypt

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Asmaa

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Dawood

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F.A.

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Department of Histology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

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asmaanoorahmed@yahoo.com

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Egypt

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First Name

Shereen

Last Name

Refaie

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Department of Biomedical Science, College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Alhasa, Saudi Arabia.

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shereen_refaie@outlook.com

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Saudi Arabia

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Shahina

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Khan

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Department of Biomedical Science, College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Alhasa, Saudi Arabia.

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shahina2002@yahoo.com

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15

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2

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42424

Issue Date

2023-12-01

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2023-10-02

Publish Date

2023-11-18

Page Start

89

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100

Print ISSN

2090-0775

Online ISSN

2090-0848

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https://eajbsd.journals.ekb.eg/article_325815.html

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685

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Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences, D. Histology & Histochemistry

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https://eajbsd.journals.ekb.eg/

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Potentiality Assessment of The Activity of Scorpion Venom as An Insecticide Towards Spodoptera frugiperda: Histological and Electron Microscopy Studies

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24 Dec 2024