Claim · model-written summary
Malathion protected walnuts from sawtoothed grain beetle damage.
- Treatment
- Malathion sprayse0
- Interactor
- Oryzaephilus surinamensis
Oryzaephilus surinamensise0pest - Outcome
- damagee0
- Direction
- protectede0
JuglansNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Malathion sprays protected stored inshell walnuts for 8–12 months from damage by the Indian meal moth, Plodia interpunctella (Hübner), the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst), the confused flour beetle, T. confusum Jacquelin duVal, the sawtoothed grain beetle, Oryzaephilus surinamensis (L.), and the merchant grain beetle, O. mercator (Fauvel).”
Title
Malathion as a Protectant Against Storage Insects of Inshell Walnuts2
G. H. Spitler; J. A. Coffelt; P. L. Hartsell Journal of Economic Entomology 1976. doi:10.1093/jee/69.4.539
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Malathion protected walnuts from Indian meal moth damage for 8–12 months.
- Intervention effect Malathion protected walnuts from red flour beetle damage.
- Intervention effect Malathion protected walnuts from confused flour beetle damage.
- Intervention effect Malathion protected walnuts from merchant grain beetle damage.
- Observation Highest dose residues averaged 3.5 ppm after 12 months.
- Observation Malathion moved slowly from shells into nutmeats.
- Observation Nutmeat residues never exceeded 1.1 ppm.
- Intervention effect Treated and untreated walnuts did not differ significantly in odor or flavor.