Claim · model-written summary
Oil-induced pest mortality was below 2.5% after 60 and 120 days.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayse2
- Treatment
- all the oilse1
- Interactor
- Sitophilus zeamais
Sitophilus zeamaise3pest - Outcome
- mortalitye0
- Direction
- lower thane0
- Value
- 2.5%e0
- Qualifier
- after 60 and 120 dayse0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSetting
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“after 60 and 120 days, mortality was lower than 2.5%.”
e1“all the oils”
e2“stored corn grains”
e3“Sitophilus zeamais”
Title
EFEITO RESIDUAL DE INSETICIDAS NATURAIS NO CONTROLE DE SITOPHILUS ZEAMAIS MOTS. EM MILHO ARMAZENADO
Rodrigo Leandro Braga de Castro Coitinho; José Vargas de Oliveira; Manoel Guedes Corrêa Gondim Junior; et al. DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) 2006
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Silica dioxide caused 46.7% pest mortality initially.
- Intervention effect Silica dioxide caused 38.3% pest mortality after 60 days.
- Intervention effect Silica dioxide caused 37.5% pest mortality after 120 days.
- Intervention effect Other powders induced little mortality.
- Intervention effect Silica dioxide was most efficient in reducing adult emergence across three storage periods.
- Intervention effect All tested oils caused more than 79% pest mortality initially.
- Association Adult emergence increased with storage duration.
- Intervention effect Neem oil performed best at 120 days, followed by andiroba, cedar, rosemary and E. globulus oils.