Insect Pests of Stored Grain

Biology, Behavior, and Management Strategies

Ranjeet Kumar

• Publisher: Apple Academic Press
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781315341491
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Science General
• Index: Biological Sciences

Stored products of agriculture and animal origin are attacked by more than 600 species of beetles, 70 species of moths, and about 355 species of mites, causing huge quantitative and qualitative losses and insect contamination in food commodities. This is an important quality control problem. This book, Insect Pests of Stored Grain: Biology, Behavior, and Management Strategies, provides comprehensive coverage of stored product entomology for the sustainable management of insects and other noninsect pests, such as mites, birds, rodents, and fungi, with the aim to mitigate and eliminate these losses of food from grains.

The author, who has studied sustainable and herbal management of stored grain and seed insect pests in his research, considers sustainable management of stored grain insect pests and eco-friendly approaches along with the utilization of waste materials. Starting with a history of stored product entomology from the beginning to the modern era in detail along with an introduction of storage entomology, the book then goes on to cover a range of important issues, including

• Significant developments in the field of storage entomology
• Classification and identification of important stored grain insects
• Major stored product coleopteran and lepidopteran insects that infest stored commodities
• Estimation of losses caused by stored grain insect pests
• Factors responsible for infestation of stored grain insects
• Different storage structures
• Alternative methods for the management of stored grain insects by utilization of behavior modification techniques or utilization of secondary metabolites of plants
• Fumigation of stored grains for the protection of infestation

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Insect Pests of Stored Grain: Biology, Behavior, and Management Strategies covers a vast amount of valuable information on stored product entomology for the sustainable management of insects and other noninsect pests.

CONTENTS

List of Abbreviations

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction to Storage Entomology

2. History of Grain or Seed Storage

3. Classification and Identification of Important Stored Grain/Seed Insects

4. Important Stored Grain and Seed Insect Pests

5. Detection of Infestation in Stored Product

6. Estimation of Losses Due to Insects in Stored Products

7. Sources and Kind of Infestation

8. Factors Affecting Infestation of Storage Insects

9. Methods of Storage and Different Storage Structures

10. Behavioral Management of Storage Insects

11. Management of Stored Grain and Seed Insects By Plant Products

12. Integrated Management of Storage Insects

13. Fumigation of Stored Products

14. Important Mites Associated with Stored Produce and their Management

15. Important Birds Associated with Stored Grain and Their Management

16. Important Rodents in Warehouse or Godown and Their Management*

17. Important Storage Fungi and Their Management

18. Stored Grain Insects of Quarantine Importance

Appendix 1 Calculation of Doses of Insecticides in Stored Grain Pest Management

Appendix 2 Records Keeping in Warehouses

Glossary

Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Ranjeet Kumar

Ranjeet Kumar, PhD, is an Assistant Professor cum Junior Scientist in the Post-Graduate Department of Entomology at Bihar Agriculture University, Sabour, Bhagalpur, Bihar, India. Dr. Kumar has worked on stored product entomology for the sustainable and herbal management of stored grain and seed insect pests, investigating several herbal fumigants for the sustainable management of stored grain and seed insect. He has published several books and a manual on the topic as well as authored over 20 research papers in national and international journals. He has also published 19 popular articles in magazines and periodicals.

Dr. Kumar is life member or fellow of several scientific committee and societies. He received an award from an international conference on entomology at Punjabi University in Punjab.

Dr. Ranjeet Kumar earned his PhD (Stored Product Entomology) in 2010 from the G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India.

ABOUT THE BOOK SERIES: POSTHARVEST BIOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY

As we know, preserving the quality of fresh produce has long been a challenging task. In the past, several approaches were in use for the postharvest management of fresh produce, but due to continuous advancement in technology, the increased health consciousness of consumers, and environmental concerns, these approaches have been modified and enhanced to address these issues and concerns.

The Postharvest Biology and Technology series presents edited books that address many important aspects related to postharvest technology of fresh produce. The series presents existing and novel management systems that are in use today or that have great potential to maintain the postharvest quality of fresh produce in terms of microbiological safety, nutrition, and sensory quality.

The books are aimed at professionals, postharvest scientists, academicians researching postharvest problems, and graduate-level students. This series is intended to be a comprehensive venture that provides up-to-date scientific and technical information focusing on postharvest management for fresh produce.

Books in the series will address the following themes:

• Nutritional composition and antioxidant properties of fresh produce
• Postharvest physiology and biochemistry
• Biotic and abiotic factors affecting maturity and quality
• Preharvest treatments affecting postharvest quality
• Maturity and harvesting issues
• Nondestructive quality assessment
• Physiological and biochemical changes during ripening
• Postharvest treatments and their effects on shelf life and quality
• Postharvest operations such as sorting, grading, ripening, de-greening, curing etc
• Storage and shelf-life studies
• Packaging, transportation, and marketing
• Vase life improvement of flowers and foliage
• Postharvest management of spice, medicinal, and plantation crops
• Fruit and vegetable processing waste/byproducts: management and utilization
• Postharvest diseases and physiological disorders
• Minimal processing of fruits and vegetables
• Quarantine and phytosanitory treatments for fresh produce
• Conventional and modern breeding approaches to improve the postharvest quality
• Biotechnological approaches to improve postharvest quality of horticultural crops

We are seeking editors to edit volumes in different postharvest areas for the series. Interested editors may also propose other relevant subjects within their field of expertise, which may not be mentioned in the list above. We can only publish a limited number of volumes each year, so if you are interested, please email your proposal [email protected] at your earliest convenience.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Editor-in-Chief:

Mohammed Wasim Siddiqui, Ph.D.

Scientist-cum-Assistant Professor | Bihar Agricultural University

Department of Food Science and Technology | Sabour | Bhagalpur | Bihar | INDIA

AAP Acquisitions Editor, Horticultural Science

Founding/Managing Editor, Journal of Postharvest Technology

Email: [email protected]

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Books in the Postharvest Biology and Technology Series:

Postharvest Biology and Technology of Horticultural Crops: Principles and Practices for Quality Maintenance

Editor: Mohammed Wasim Siddiqui, PhD

Postharvest Management of Horticultural Crops: Practices for Quality Preservation

Editor: Mohammed Wasim Siddiqui, PhD

Insect Pests of Stored Grain: Biology, Behavior, and Management Strategies

Ranjeet Kumar, PhD

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

ACS	American Chemical Society
ADI	Acceptable daily intake
APC	Agricultural Price Commission
APEDA	Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority
CA	controlled atmosphere
CACP	Commission on Agricultural Costs and Prices
CNS	central nervous system
CT	carbon tetrachloride
CWC	Central Warehousing Corporation
DIPA	destructive insect pest act
DPPQS	Directorate of Plant Protection and Storage
EC	economic community
EDB	ethylene dibromide
EPA	Environmental Protection Agency
FAO	Food and Agriculture Organization
FCI	Food Corporation of India
GC	gas chromatography
GCMS	gas chromatography and mass spectra
GIT	gastrointestinal tract effects
IGSI	Indian Grain Storage Institute
IGSRTI	Indian Grain Storage Research and Training Institute
IOBC	International Organization on Biological Control
IPPC	International Plant Protection Convention
IR	infrared
LC	lethal concentration
LD	lethal dose
MB	methyl bromide
NBARD	National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
NCI	National Cancer Institute
NCIPM	National Center for Integrated Pest Management
NE	natural enemies
NIR	near infrared
NRI	Natural Resource Institute
PFAA	Prevention of Food Adulteration Act
PPO	Plant Protection Organization
RCA	Royal Commission on Agriculture
SGC	Save Grain Campaign
SGRL	Stored Grain Research Laboratory
SWC	State Warehousing Corporation
TC	toxic concentration
TD	toxic dose
USDA	United Nation Department of Agriculture
WCA	Warehousing Corporation Act
WDRA	Warehouse Development and Regulation Act
WFD	World Food Day
WHO	World Health Organization

PREFACE

Stored products of agriculture and animal origin are attacked by more than 600 species of beetles, 70 species of moths, and about 355 species of mites, causing quantitative and qualitative losses. Insect contamination in food commodities is an important quality control problem of concern at different storage levels and for food and agricultural industries. According to recent estimates, about 70–75% of food grain is handled at farmer’s level in India where we do not have adequate scientific storage facilities and grain-protection technologies; rest 25-30% of food grain is procured and stored by Food Corporation of India (FCI), Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC), and State Warehousing Corporation (SWC) who have scientific storage facility. The surplus food grain and seeds of the nation needs keeping facilities and care during storage.

Alternative options to traditional management of stored grain insects pests are being advocated in several countries since last four decades. Integrated pest management, secondary metabolites of plant and their products, use of bio agents, manipulation of abiotic factors, inert dusts, and application of microbial pathogens are recently utilized fo...

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