• Dr. M.S. Arora
• Priya KumarI Chanda
• Dr.Gunwati V.Arak

Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae ) is one of the most damaging strored – product insecxt pest in India. Though synthetic insecticides have promising resulta against T. castaneum but use of synthetic insecticides can be hazardous for the environment. Further, while resistance development continues to be an issue for many synthetic pesticides, it is likely that resistance will develop more slowly to essential-oil-based pesticides owing to the complex mixtures of constituents that characterize many of these oils. Replacing these synthetic insecticides with plant materials to control this pest, however, can be a safe method with low environmental risk especially in stored products. So three important essential oils i.e. neem oil, clove oil were evaluated against T. castaneum Four different doses of each of the oils were prepared. Mortality percentages on different doses with respect to time were not only compared with each other. Results showed that mortality was directly proportional to dose and time in case of treated oils .

Neem oil, Clove oil, Tribolium castaneum

"Effect of clove oil( Syzygium aromaticum) and neem oil (Azedirecta indica) on Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (coleopteran: tenebrionidae)", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.90-98, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRS006012.pdf

"Effect of clove oil( Syzygium aromaticum) and neem oil (Azedirecta indica) on Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (coleopteran: tenebrionidae)", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp90-98, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRS006012.pdf