Evaluation of Some Essential Oils Against Wax Moth Larvae (Lepedoptera: Galleria mellonlla L.) and Adult Honeybee Workers (Hymenoptera: Apismellifera L) | ||
| Arab Universities Journal of Agricultural Sciences | ||
| Article 7, Volume 30, Issue 1, June 2022, Pages 157-162 PDF (349.34 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ajs.2022.108974.1441 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Ekbal Helaly* 1; Mahmoud A Ali2; Naglaa Ghazala1 | ||
| 1Plant Protection Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center,Ministry of Agriculture, Giza, Egypt | ||
| 2Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study was conducted to investigate the effects of five essential oils (garlic, Allium sativum; camphor, Cinnamomum camphor; menthol, Mentha sp.; cinnamon, Cinnamomum erum; and clove, Dianthus sp.) on wax moth larvae and adult honeybee workers under laboratory conditions. Cinnamon, garlic, menthol, clove, and camphor oils were found to be highly effective against wax moth larvae, with 100 percent mortality achieved after 48 and 96 hours for cinnamon and garlic oils respectively, and after 120 hours for clove and mint oils. Camphor oil provided 96.60% accumulative mortality after 120 hrs. Moreover, all the essential oils were highly safe for adult honeybee workers under laboratory conditions. Accumulative corrected mortality rates after 72 hr were 15.96, 9.02, 13.18, 29.16, and 8.88% for treatments with cinnamon, clove, camphor, mint, and garlic oils respectively. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Honeybee; Wax moth; Cinnamon; Garlic; Clove; Camphor menthol oils | ||
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