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1 June 2003 Granary Trial of Protein-Enriched Pea Flour for the Control of Three Stored-Product Insects in Barley
Xingwei Hou, Paul G. Fields
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A granary trial was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of protein-enriched pea flour against three common stored-grain insects, Sitophilus oryzae (L.), Tribolium castaneum (Herbst), and Cryptolestes ferrugineus (Stephens). Six 30-t farm granaries were filled with ≈11 t of barley. The barley was either not treated, treated with protein-enriched pea flour at 0.1% throughout the entire grain mass, or treated at 0.5% throughout the top half of the grain mass. Adult insects were released in screened boxes (two insects per kilogram barley for S. oryzae and T. castaneum; 1.4 insects per kilogram barley for C. ferrugineus). Barley was sampled four times during the 70-d trial. The number and mortality of adults and emerged adults in the samples were noted. Four kinds of traps, flight, surface-pitfall, probe-pitfall, and sticky-bar, were placed at different locations in the granaries to estimate the movement of insects. The 0.1% protein-enriched pea flour treatment reduced adult numbers of S. oryzae by 93%, T. castaneum by 66%, and C. ferrugineus by 58%, and reduced the emerged adults by 87, 77, and 77%, respectively. Treating the top half of the barley with 0.5% protein-enriched pea flour had similar effects as treating the entire grain mass with 0.1% pea-protein flour. However, the top-half treatment failed to prevent insects from penetrating into the untreated lower layer. Differences between traps are discussed.

Xingwei Hou and Paul G. Fields "Granary Trial of Protein-Enriched Pea Flour for the Control of Three Stored-Product Insects in Barley," Journal of Economic Entomology 96(3), 1005-1015, (1 June 2003). https://doi.org/10.1603/0022-0493-96.3.1005
Received: 29 May 2002; Accepted: 1 January 2003; Published: 1 June 2003
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KEYWORDS
botanical insecticides
Cryptolestes
peas
Sitophilus
traps
Tribolium
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