Abstract Background Stored grain products suffer a considerable economic loss due to insect infestations. The resistance of pests insecticide, and residues on crops are produced by the application insecticide. Nowadays, incremental necessity has been occurred find out alternatives chemicals. As biological control agents, entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) attract attention increasingly in resear...

The Indianmeal moth, Plodia interpunctella (Hübner), was selected as a representative stored-product moth to test the validity of contour mapping of trap catch for pest monitoring in warehouses and retail stores. Three experiments, each replicated five times, were conducted in a 3.2 by 9.0-m aluminum shed. Each experiment involved placing pupae at a single release point (source) and recording t...

Insect pests are responsible for substantial damage to museum objects, historic books and in buildings like palaces or historic houses. Different wood boring beetles (Anobium punctatum, Hylotrupes bajulus, Lyctus sp. or introduced species), the biscuit beetle (Stegobium paniceum), the cigarette beetle (Lasioderma serricorne), different Dermestides (Attagenus sp., Anthrenus sp., Dermestes sp., T...