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Botanical insecticides effectively control chickpea weevil, Callosobruchus maculatus

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Health hazards associated with the excess use of chemical insecticides used for the post-harvest preservation of food grains has prompted the emphasis on the use of natural insecticides in agriculture. In this regards, botanical insecticides have emerged as one of the best, safer, green, eco-friendly, promising and sustainable alternatives for controlling insect pests. Therefore, present study was aimed to evaluate the insecticidal and repellent activities of extracts of various plants such as Azadirachta indica (kernel), Allium sativum (bulb), Curcuma longa (rhizome), Citrus sinensis (peel), Citrus limon (peel), Murraya koenigii (leaves) and Eucalyptus sp. (leaves) against the chickpea weevil, Callosobruchus maculatus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). These extracts exhibited potent insecticidal and repellent effects on C. maculatus. After 5 days treatment, all these extracts showed varying degree of insecticidal and repellent activity against C. maculatus; A. indica produced highest mortality (58%) followed by A. sativum (52.66% mortality) and C. longa (49.33% mortality) whereas C. sinensis exerted the lowest mortality (12.45%) against C. maculatus. All these extracts also showed good repellent activity, A. indica showed the highest index of repellency (IR) (0.53) followed by A. sativum (IR = 0.66), C. longa (IR = 0.73) and M. koenigii (IR = 0.86). These plant extracts also protected the chickpea grains from damage due to the beetle, A. indica provided 95.63% protection to chickpea grains against damage. Among the various extracts, extracts of A. indica (kernel), A. sativum (bulb) and C. longa (rhizome) proved to be promising insecticides and repellent against chickpea insect pest and can be used as effective, safer and green insecticides and repellents to preserve and protect chickpea grains against coleopteran pest.

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Saxena, B., Sayyed, R.Z. Botanical insecticides effectively control chickpea weevil, Callosobruchus maculatus. Environmental Sustainability 1, 295–301 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42398-018-00029-x

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