Antifeedant Effects of Common Herbs on the Colorado Potato Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
Abstract
Aqueous suspensions produced by grinding leaf tissue of tansy, sage, basil, catnip, dill, and rue in water deterred feeding of adult and larval Colorado potato beetles, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say), when tested on eggplant leaf disks in laboratory choice tests. Tansy showed the most potent antifeedant effect. Adult beetles refused to feed on leaf disks dipped in a 10% (2 g in 20 ml) suspension of tansy tissue, even after 22 h in either a choice or no-choice situation. Beetles kept for 22 h on leaf disks treated with a 1% (0.2 g in 20 ml) tansy suspension subsequently rejected the treatment to the same extent as naive beetles. Tansy treatments caused substantial mortality to beetle larvae that fed on them from egg hatching. These effects could have been caused by starvation or physiological toxicity. Tansy and other herbs show potential for use in integrated pest management programs aimed at the Colorado potato beetle.
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IBRAHIM, M. A., KAINULAINEN, P., & AFLATUNI, A. (2001) · Agricultural and Food Science · doi:10.23986/afsci.5697 · Cited by 230 · see citing works
“1993), antifeedants (Hough-Goldstein 1990), or disrupt on growth and development (Karr and”
BackgroundComparing impacts of plant extracts and pure allelochemicals and implications for pest control.
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- Authors
- Hough-Goldstein, J. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Delaware (US)
- Corresponding author
- Hough-Goldstein, J. A.
- Venue
- Environmental Entomology
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1990-04-01
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 234-238
- ISSN
- 0046-225X (ISSN-L)
- 1938-2936
- OpenAlex
- W2018638748
- Cited by
- 68
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 1.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Environmental Entomology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Insect Pest Control Strategies
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Insect Science › Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Insect Science › Insect Pheromone Research and Control
- Keywords
- Colorado potato beetle, antifeedant activity, Tanacetum vulgare, sage, Ocimum basilicum, Nepeta cataria, dill, Ruta graveolens, herb extracts, larval mortality, integrated pest management, eggplant, botanical pest control
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