Sandra Gebauer, Katiane Pompermayer, Daian Guilherme Pinto de Oliveira, Fabiana Gisele da Silva Pinto, Jéssica Rosset, Debora Marina Bandeira, Gabriela Trindade de Souza E Silva, Murilo Silva de Oliveira, Geraldo Humberto Silva, Luis Francisco Angeli Alves, Geraldo Andrade Carvalho, Denilson Ferreira de Oliveira, Dejane Santos Alves
The botanical insecticide market is growing because of limitations placed on the use of certain synthetic chemical insecticides. In this sense, the lesser mealworm Alphitobius diaperius (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) is the main poultry pest. The insect causes weight loss and damage to the digestive system of poultry, and it is a vector and reservoir of pathogens. Consequently, this study explored the following hypotheses: (i) essential oils (EOs) derived from Mentha spp. are toxic to A. diaperius; (ii) these EOs are compatible with Beauveria bassiana, the natural enemy of the poultry pest, that parasite A...
May 2, 2024: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International