Effect of Host Kind and Some Insect Growth Inhibitors on Average Food Consumption and Rate of Increase of Ephestia cautella (Walk.) and Ephestia calidella (Gunee)

M. Al- Mallah, Nazar

	Effect of Host Kind and Some Insect Growth Inhibitors on Average Food Consumption and Rate of Increase of Ephestia cautella (Walk.) and Ephestia calidella (Gunee)
Tikrit Journal of Pure Science
Article 1, Volume 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 52-57
Author
Nazar M. Al- Mallah
Abstract
The result of the this study showed that the insect growth inhibitors (Dimilin , Match , Trigard) and host kind (artificial diet, date and Fig) affect the amount of food consumption and growth rate of Fig moth Ephestia cautella (Walk.) and currant moth Ephestia calidella (Gunee) significantly. The Match was the best insect growth inhibitors in reducing the average amount of food consumption at 0.3% concentration and reached 1.12, 1.2 and 1.53 gm for artificial diet , date and Fig respectively. The lowest value of growth rate reached -0.33 for Fig moth at 0.1% Match concentration, while for the currant moth the average amount of food consumption was reached 1.87, 2.25 and 2.42 gm at 0.3% Match concentration for date, artificial diet and Fig respectively, while the growth rate reached -0.23, -0.19 and -0.11 on artificial diet, Fig and date respectively when treated with 0.001 Match

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