Atividade inseticida de quimiotipos de Lippia gracilis sobre Diaphania hyalinata e Cryptolestes ferrugíneus

• Autor(a) principal: Melo, Carlisson Ramos
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Texto Completo: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/3036
• topic: Alecrim-da-chapada; Crambidae; Cucujidae; Apis mellifera; Polybia micans; Agrobiodiversidade; Alecrim; Abelha africanizada; Pragas agrícolas; Essencias e óleos essenciais; Lippia (Gênero); CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA

Organo-synthetic insecticides are widely used to control pests in crops and stored products. The indiscriminate use of these products are responsible for many economic and environmental problems, which has been generating a growing demand for alternative control methods. The essential oils of plants have been studied as a viable alternative to pest management. Recent jobs indicate that the essential oil of alecrim-de-tabuleiro Lippia gracilis presents great potential for biopospection insecticide compounds. Thus, the aim of the present work was study the essential oils of two chemotypes of L. gracilis and their major compounds thymol and carvacrol, evaluating: i) the toxicity of these compounds against Diaphania hyalinata and selectivity over non-target organisms Apis mellifera and Polybia micans ii) the toxicity and behavioral effects of these compounds over Cryptolestes ferrugineus. The essential oils of both chemotypes of L. gracilis were toxic to D. hyalinata. The carvacrol chemotype was 29% more toxic than thymol chemotype. The monoterpenes thymol and carvacrol when applied alone, were about two and five times more toxic than their respective chemotypes. Essential oils acted very quickly causing mortality in half the population of D. hyalinata in less than three hours. All treatments were not selective in favor of A. mellifera and P. micans. The essential oils and the major compounds were highly toxic by fumigation to adults of C. ferrugineus. The concentrations of the thymol and carvacrol chemotypes required to cause 50% mortality of C. ferrugineus were 20.7 and 25.1 μL L-1, respectively. The isolated thymol and carvacrol were 1.7 and 1.9 times more toxic to C. ferrugineus. Essential oils thymol and carvacrol chemotypes caused a mortality half the population of C. ferrugineus in 63.3 and 83.1 hours. All treatments caused repellency and irritability in adult C. ferrugineus. Thus, our results show the great potential of essential oils of L. gracilis and their major compounds for the development of new products to be used in the pest control field and in stored products.