Abstract
Eco-Friendly Tools for Early Detection of Insects in The Stored Wheat Grains Under Egyptian Conditions
Highlights
Wheat grain (Triticum aestivum) is a very vital and strategic grain crop for all Egyptian people (ElFetyany et al, 2021)
Investigations were performed in the Egyptian warehouse to detect the insect species at the early stages of infestation and study the efficiency of stack probe trap in early detection of wheat infestation due to insect attack
Findings of the first experimental work showed the presence of many insects that attack wheat commodity during the storage, namely S. oryzae, R. dominica, O. surinamensis, and T. castaneum (Table 1)
Summary
Wheat grain (Triticum aestivum) is a very vital and strategic grain crop for all Egyptian people (ElFetyany et al, 2021). Wheat crop is facing major challenges and losses where about 45% losses may occur in the field and storage processes. Among these losses, more than 57% of losses may arise during grain storage (Wicochea-Rodríguez et al, 2021). Insect pests are the major enemy of cereals in Egypt and could cause the main loss in stored food grain products (ElFetyany et al, 2021). A rice weevil insect can consume about 15 mg out of 21 mg of rice kernels during storage processes (WicocheaRodríguez et al, 2021) This leads to loss the quality and reduces the quantity of the grain product (Mohan and Rajesh, 2016; Wicochea-Rodríguez et al, 2021)
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