Journal of Eco-friendly Agriculture
  • Year: 2023
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue: 1

Seed preference and biology of rust red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in stored green gram

  • Author:
  • Banna Ushasri1,*, Ibohal Singh1, Shravan M Haldar1, Th. Bina Devi1, LNK Singh2, H. Gopimohan Singh3
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Published Online: Dec 27, 2023
  • Page Number: 208 to 210

1Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, Central Agricultural University, Imphal, India, 795004

2Department of Pathology, College of Agriculture, Central Agricultural University, Imphal, India, 795004

3Department of Basic Sciences, College of Agriculture, Central Agricultural University, Imphal, India, 795004

*Corresponding author email: ushasribanna123@gmail.com

Online published on 27 December, 2023.

Abstract

The study on biology revealed that the duration of egg laying, incubation, larval period, pupal period and total life cycle of T. castaneum lasted for 6.40, 6.60, 30.80, 5.20 and 49.0 days, respectively. The best preferred the groundnut (ICGS-76) seed the most damaging 10.01 per cent of the seeds and leading to 1.21 per cent loss in weight under storage while coriander (local cultivar) was found the least preferred with 0.33 per cent seed damage and 0.01 weight loss.

Keywords

Larval period, Pupal period, Total life cycle, Seed damage, Weight loss