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==Insecticidal Effect of Low Oxygen Treatments Against Different Stored Product Beetles in Real World Applications - Abstract==
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Insecticidal Effect of Low Oxygen Treatments Against Different
Stored Product Beetles in Real World Applications - Abstract
Maria K. Sakka 1, Paraskevi Agrafioti 1 and Christos G. Athanassiou 1
1
    University of Thessaly, Phytokoy str, Volos, Greece


                 Summary
                 We evaluated low oxygen treatment, through the increase of nitrogen in two different
                 commercial facilities structures (chambers and silos) against phosphine resistant and
                 susceptible populations of three different beetle species: Tribolium castaneum (Herbst)
                 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), Sitophilus oryzae (L.) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and
                 Oryzaephilus surinamensis (L.) (Coleoptera: Silvanidae). Different temperatures and exposure
                 times were evaluated with the oxygen level to be lower than 1%. Vials with insects and
                 commodity (different commodity per species) were placed in different locations inside each
                 treatment and insect mortality was measured after the termination of each treatment. Then, the
                 vials were kept in ambient conditions at 25 οC and 65 % relative humidity and 65 days later
                 progeny production was measured. In general, complete mortality was recorded in chambers
                 and some survival was recorded in silos. Progeny production was low for most of the
                 treatments. Temperature, exposure time and structure are the key parameters for the control of
                 stored product insects. The results indicate that low oxygen is effective for all insect species
                 tested, regardless of their resistance status to phosphine, and can be further adopted as an
                 alternative method to mitigate resistance in stored product beetles.

                 Keywords1
                 Low oxygen, nitrogen, silos, chambers, mortality

                 Acknowledgements
                 This research has been co‐financed by the European Union and Greek national funds through
                 the Operational Program Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, under the call
                 RESEARCH – CREATE – INNOVATE (project code: Τ2ΕΔΚ-05327).




Proceedings of HAICTA 2022, September 22–25, 2022, Athens, Greece
EMAIL: msakka@uth.gr (A. 1); agrafiot@uth.gr (A. 2); athanassiou@uth.gr (A. 3)
ORCID: 0000-0002-4624-0953 (A. 1); 0000-0001-6578-4019 (A. 3)
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              Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
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