BIOEFFICIENCY OF BERMUDA GRASS, CYNODON DACTYLON (L.) ON THE FEEDING ACTIVITY OF SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA (FORSK.) (ORTHOPTERA, ACRIDIDAE) | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Research | ||
| Article 7, Volume 87, Issue 2, July 2009, Pages 423-432 PDF (239.75 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejar.2009.193529 | ||
| Author | ||
| MOHAMED. T. MOHAMED | ||
| Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The effects of Bermuda grass, Cynodon dactylone (L.) on approximate digestibility (AD), consumption index (CI), efficiency of conversion of ingested food (ECI) and digested food (ECD) into body substances as well as growth rate of the last nymphal instars of Schistocerca gregaria (Forsk.) were studied in the laboratory. The obtained results revealed that, feeding 4th instar nymphs on the contaminated clover, Trifolium alexandrirum with leaves and roots extracts of burmuda grass in methanol, acetone and ethoxyethanol significantly reduced AD, ECI and ECD. The reductions in these parameters were expressed as remarkable reduction in the body weight of the treated 4th instar nymphs. The same treatments were conducted against the 5th instar nymphs and resulted in significant increasing in AD and CI, but ECI and ECD were decreased in comparison to the control. The decreasing in ECI and ECD was reflected as a reduction in the growth rate of the treated 5th instar nymphs. It seems that, 5th instar nymphs were more sensitive than 4th one to the juvenilizing action of Bermuda grass because the increasing in AD and CI and the decreasing in ECI and ECD in the treated 5th instar nymphs with the extracts of Bermuda grass are considered as a juvenilizing effect of this grass, which coinside with many other studies on plant extracts against insect pests. It is may refer to that Bermuda grass may include some effective compounds enable it to resist the desert locust plague. | ||
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