Claim · model-written summary
Airtight LC50 was 0.30g black pepper.
- Taxon
- O. mercator
Oryzaephilus mercatore1 - Treatment
- black peppere1
- Interactor
- melon
Cucumis meloe0host - Outcome
- LC50e1
- Value
- 0.30ge0
- Setting
- airtight environmente0
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Verbatim
e0“0.30g and 0.93g pepper/20g melon, respectively, in the airtight environment”
e1“The LC50 and LC90 of black pepper against O. mercator”
Title
O.C UMEOZOR Nigerian Journal of Entomology 2001. doi:10.36108/nje/1002/81.0130
Other claims from this paper (18)
- Observation Aerated control beetle emergence averaged 19.84 +0.46.
- Intervention effect At 0.25g pepper, aerated beetle emergence averaged 9.49 + 0.90.
- Intervention effect At 0.5g pepper, aerated beetle emergence averaged 6.40 + 0.34.
- Intervention effect At 0.75g pepper, aerated beetle emergence averaged 3.46 + 1.25.
- Intervention effect At 1g pepper, aerated beetle emergence averaged 1.49 + 0.90.
- Intervention effect At 2g pepper, aerated beetle emergence was zero.
- Intervention effect At 3g pepper, aerated beetle emergence was zero.
- Observation Airtight control beetle emergence averaged 18.42 + 1.06.
- Intervention effect At 0.25g pepper, airtight beetle emergence averaged 8.86 ±3.88.
- Intervention effect At 0.5g pepper, airtight beetle emergence averaged 4.93 ± 0.26.
- Intervention effect At 0.75g pepper, airtight beetle emergence averaged 2.78 ± 2.82.
- Intervention effect At 1g pepper, airtight beetle emergence averaged 1.09 ± 0.58.
- Intervention effect At 2g pepper, airtight beetle emergence was zero.
- Intervention effect At 3g pepper, airtight beetle emergence was zero.
- Observation Aerated LC50 was 0.27g black pepper.
- Observation Aerated LC90 was 0.9~g black pepper per reported melon amount.
- Observation Airtight LC90 was 0.93g pepper/20g melon.
- Recommendation Black pepper is recommended as an alternative insecticide for beetle control.