A preliminary study on the fumigant toxicity of essential oils to eggs and larvae of Queensland fruit fly Bactrocera tryoni
Yusup Hidayat, Neil Heather, Errol Hassan
Abstracts of 7th International Postharvest Symposium 2012 (IPS2012). 25-29 June, 2012. Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 238 pages.
2012
บทคัดย่อ
Essential oils are natural volatile compounds extracted mainly by a process of distillation. They are often used in daily lives of human food as flavours, fragrances, in alternative medicine, as antiseptics and mosquito repellents. In addition, these oils have been reported to have various lethal and sub lethal effects on many kinds of agricultural pests including the postharvest ones. However, very little is known on their biological activities against fruit flies. The aim of this study was to evaluate the fumigant toxicity of eight plant essential oils (A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H) against eggs and larvae of Queensland fruit fly Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt), a key pest of many horticultural crops in Australia especially in the eastern part of the country.