Plants as Bio-Insecticides in the Service of the Suppression of Potato Tuber Moth in Storage

Abstract

Phthorimaea operculella Zeller (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), is economically very important pest of potato and other solanaceous plants in the field and warehouse. Frequent and excessive use of insecticides leads to development of insects resistance, environmental pollution, and lives residues in food. All this implicated as a obligatory applications of botanical insecticides. Research in this area is increasingly attracting attention as the kingdom of plants is an inexhaustible source of active ingredients with insecticidal properties. This is the only way in the registration and appropriate use of eco-friendly active ingredients as pesticides

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