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Cereal grains are the major source of food for humans and most domesticated animals. In many developing countries, overall post harvest losses of cereals of between 10–15% are fairly common. The grain weevil, Sitophilus granaries is a pest of wheat, oats, rye, barley, rice and corn. Grain weevils ca...
A warm air treatment is a non-toxic method to eradicate all stages of stored product insects or insects interfering with food hygiene and human health. The heating units reach temperatures of 50° to 60°C inside the buildings and rooms everywhere and are maintained during a sufficient period of time....
Heat treatment has been used to control stored food pests, bed bugs, cockroaches, and other household pests, and structural timber and wood pallets. The energy requirements for treating different materials, spaces, and timber require careful attention to maintaining a heat regimen and training of ap...
The webbing clothes moth Tineola bisselliella is economically the most import pest on wool, fur, and feathers. The larvae cause damage in stores, museums and households. Infestation can be through import of infested material or by new infestations out of natural reservoirs. Natural reservoirs are be...
The synthetic stored product insect pheromones have been used effectively for monitoring insects in food processing plants, warehouses, and grain storage facilities. It is a highly effective tool for early detection of insect infestation. However, the pheromone monitoring in these places induces ins...
Mites are known as causal agents of bronchial asthma, allergic rhinitis and conjunctivitis among food industry workers as well as in urban populations. Mites inhabit stored grain commodities and contaminate them by faeces containing digestive enzymes as the allergenic substances. Among them, amylase...
Field trials involving seventy rural households from three villages in Mozambique were established to test whether intensive daily trapping inside household-level food stores could effectively reduce rodent pest populations. The main species caught inside dwellings where food was stored were Rattus ...
The Pantry PatrolÔ is a new trapping system for use by professional pest managers and for introduction into the domestic market. Sex pheromones for Plodia interpunctella, Ephestia kuehniella, E. cautella, Lasioderma serricorne, Trogoderma variabile, and T. granarium and aggregation pheromones for th...
Systematic Termite ControlSM (STC) is a program developed by FMC Corporation to provide the professional pest control industry with a new, integrated strategy for the control of subterranean termite populations. The objective of STC is structural protectio,n, i.e., to control termite activity within...
Five representative types of bakeries were surveyed in the city of Riyadh, K.S.A. to ascertain pest situations and various schemes on pest control management. The principal pests include stored product pests (e.g., Tribolium confusum Duval, Tribolium castaneum (Hbst.), Mus musculus and Rattus rattus...
Dry leaf petroleum ether crude extracts of Eichhornia crassipes (Mart) Solms administered to the fifth instar larvae of Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (Coleoptera: curiculinadae) and Corcyra cephalonica (Staint) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) by a food treatment method inhibited growth and metamorphosis of ...
Psocids, and particularly the species Liposcelis bostrychophila , have become an increasingly recognised pest of stored food products and grain. In the UK, L. bostrychophila is the most important cause of consumer complaints in some areas of the food industry. A similar picture emerges from other Eu...
Patented Film Forming Aqueous Spray Technology or 'FFAST' has been used to develop AquaPy, a water based product containing synergised pyrethrins for use in the control of public health and hygiene pests. This product is highly flexible and can be applied undiluted through Ultra Low Volume (ULV) spr...
The small (1mrn long), wingless, psocid, Liposcelis bostrychophila (Badonnel) (Psocoptera, Liposcelidae), is found throughout the world and is frequently a pest of farinaceous food stores. Since the early 1940's, when this insect was recorded for the first time in southern England, it has spread to ...