Insecticidal Potential of Indigenous Flora of Soon Valley against Asian Citrus Psyllid Diaphorina citri Kuwayama and Cotton Aphid Aphis gossypii Glover
Muhammad Bilal Tayyab1, Muhammad Zeeshan Majeed1*, Muhammad Asam Riaz1, Muhammad Anjum Aqueel2, Sylvain Nafiba Ouedraogo3, Muhammad Luqman4, Kanwer Shahzad Ahmed1 and Mujahid Tanvir1
1Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Sargodha 40100, Pakistan; 2Department of Entomology, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan; 3Institut des Sciences de l’ Environnement et du Développement Rural (ISEDR), Université de Dédougou, Burkina Faso; 4Department of Agricultural Extension, College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Sargodha 40100, Pakistan.
*Correspondence | Muhammad Zeeshan Majeed, Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Sargodha 40100, Pakistan; Email:
[email protected]
Figure 1:
Sampling sites regarding the collection of local flora of Soon Valley and surrounding Salt Range of Pakistan.
Figure 2:
Twig-dip (A-C) and leaf-dip (D-F) bioassay methods used for the evaluation of toxicity potential of botanical extracts against ACP (D. citri) and cotton aphid (A. gossypii), respectively.
Figure 3:
Percent mortality (mean ± SE; n = 10) of cotton aphid (A. gossypii) individuals exposed to different concentrations of botanical extracts observed at different post-exposure time intervals. For each botanical extract, small alphabets indicate statistical difference among time intervals for each concentration, while capital alphabets are indicating the statistical difference among different concentrations (one-way factorial ANOVA; HSD at α = 0.05).