Atividade repelente e inseticida do pó de plantas medicinais sobre o caruncho do Feijão-caupi.

Abstract

The Cowpea represents a strategic food source for the high levels of proteins, carbohydrates and mineral salts and adaptation to adverse environmental conditions. There are plagues capable of attacking grains/beans stored, and the most important of these in Brazil is the Callosobruchus maculatus (Coleoptera: Bruchidae), stand out to attack perfect seeds due to its derogatory potential, bringing bad quality grains and consuming nutrient reserves of the embryo. The most widely used control method against pests is the use of chemical products of different toxicological classes. Although these products have a lot of efficiency, its use can cause problems if it’s intensified, then the use of plants with insecticidal activity became so important, being generally applied in the form of powders, extracts or oils. On the exposed, this work aimed to evaluate the effect of insecticide and repellent herbs used in popular culture as the medical control of Callosobruchus maculatus in Cowpea beans, (Vigna unguiculata L.) under laboratory conditions, analyzing the lethal dose (Ld50) and lethal time (TL50) of these weevils in relation to those medicinal herb powder (Melissa officinalis (balm), Peumus boldus (boldo), Maytenus ilicifolia (espinheira-santa), Mentha (Mint). The experiment was conducted in the laboratory of Entomology, Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Campus Pombal, Paraíba, Brazil. Cowpea beans were treated with powders at concentrations of 5.0 grams and different doses of 0.25, 0.50, 0.75 and 1.0% (mass/mass of powder grains) and preferably tests and survival against c. maculatus. As regards the Lemongrass repellency, Boldo and Mint insects exhibited repellent properties, better specifying the insects did not have the same preference. The Maytenus, the bugs proved attractive/preferences. In referring to the survival every species have caused mortality at any given period of time.