Fumigation of Bucket Elevators with Phosphine Gas to Control Rice Weevil and Red Flour Beetle Adults
- 1 October 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 60 (5) , 1485-1486
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/60.5.1485
Abstract
A pilot test was conducted to evaluate phosphine gas as a fumlgant for insect control in bucket elevators in rice mills. The fumigations resulted in fair to good control of artificial infestations of rice weevils, Sitophilus oryzae (L.), and red flour beetles, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst). Further tests should be conducted to evaluate phosphine more thoroughly for bucket-elevator fumigation.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: