Control of Sitophilus oryzae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in bags of wheat using solar radiation

Fawki, Shams; Fields, Paul G.; Jian, Fuji; Yousery, Ayat

doi:10.1016/j.jspr.2022.101941

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“…Thermal control against stored grain insects has been used in many developed and developing countries. Large-scale heating control depends on the heating of storage buildings, large warehouses, and big silos 13 , 14 . On the other hand, many simple heating systems have been adopted by small farmers in many developing countries.…”

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“…On the other hand, many simple heating systems have been adopted by small farmers in many developing countries. Solar disinfestation against insect pests has been used successfully against soil, museum, and stored grain insects 14 .…”

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“…Other studies reported that rice weevil adults were killed after 4 days, and 40 seconds at 39, and 66 C, respectively 15 . According to Beckett 17 the lethal time to kill 99.9 of the adult population of rice weevil is 37.36–3.71 hours between 42 and 48 C. In one of the authors’ previous studies, solar disinfestation was used against rice weevil inside plastic bags of wheat grains under field conditions 14 . These plastic bags were able to heat up the grains to lethal insect temperatures of 40–55 C and were able to cause 67.6 ± 30 % mortality of rice weevil adults 14 .…”

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“…According to Beckett 17 the lethal time to kill 99.9 of the adult population of rice weevil is 37.36–3.71 hours between 42 and 48 C. In one of the authors’ previous studies, solar disinfestation was used against rice weevil inside plastic bags of wheat grains under field conditions 14 . These plastic bags were able to heat up the grains to lethal insect temperatures of 40–55 C and were able to cause 67.6 ± 30 % mortality of rice weevil adults 14 . In the same study various parameters that could affect the heating capacity of plastic bags to kill 100% of adult insects were investigated, but no thermal model were developed for temperature distribution inside the plastic bags.…”

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“…One of the main factors that were considered to be investigated in the initial study was the grain thickness inside the bags. Since grains are considered a good heat insulator 14 , 18 , it was hypothesised that the time to heat the grains, especially at the bottom of the bags, will increase as the grain thickness inside the bags increases. Therefore, different grain thicknesses were used.…”

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A logarithmically amortising temperature effect for supervised learning of wheat solar disinfestation of rice weevil Sitophilus oryzae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) using plastic bags

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This work investigates the effectiveness of solar heating using clear polyethylene bags against rice weevil Sitophilus oryzae (L.), which is one of the most destructive insect pests against many strategic grains such as wheat. In this paper, we aim at finding the key parameters that affect the control heating system against stored grain insects while ensuring that the wheat grain quality is maintained. We provide a new benchmark dataset, where the experimental and environmental data was collected based on fieldwork during the summer in Canada. We measure the effectiveness of the solution using a novel formula to describe the amortising temperature effect on rice weevil. We adopted different machine learning models to predict the effectiveness of our solution in reaching a lethal heating condition for insect pests, and hence measure the importance of the parameters. The performance of our machine learning models has been validated using a 10-fold cross-validation, showing a high accuracy of 99.5% with 99.01% recall, 100% precision and 99.5% F1-Score obtained by the Random Forest model. Our experimental study on machine learning with SHAP values as an eXplainable post-hoc model provides the best environmental conditions and parameters that have a significant effect on the disinfestation of rice weevils. Our findings suggest that there is an optimal medium-sized grain amount when using solar bags for thermal insect disinfestation under high ambient temperatures. Machine learning provides us with a versatile model for predicting the lethal temperatures that are most effective for eliminating stored grain insects inside clear plastic bags. Using this powerful technology, we can gain valuable information on the optimal conditions to eliminate these pests. Our model allows us to predict whether a certain combination of parameters will be effective in the treatment of insects using thermal control. We make our dataset publicly available under a Creative Commons Licence to encourage researchers to use it as a benchmark for their studies.

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A logarithmically amortising temperature effect for supervised learning of wheat solar disinfestation of rice weevil Sitophilus oryzae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) using plastic bags

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Dataset of thermal behaviour and weather data of thermal disinfestation of Sitophilus oryzae in plastic bags using solar heating

Fawki

Yousery

2022

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The Effect of Solar Heating on Lesser Grain Borer, Rhyzopertha dominica (Fab.) (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae)

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Mansor,

Qader

2024

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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The experiments of this study were conducted in the Plant protection Department laboratories - College of Agriculture - Tikrit University in 2023 for the purpose of identifying the effect of solar heating on both larvae and pupae of lesser grain borer during four weeks of both July and Augast, 2023 at 10.00 a.m, 12.00 noon and 2.00 p.m. by using three exposure times. 15, 30, and 45 minutes It has been indicated from the results that the weeks of July and August have a distinct and significant impact on the larval stage mortality and the development of the visible adult insect, as the highest larvae killing 55.19% was recorded in the 4th week of August, while the lowest larvae killing 32.95% was recorded in the 1st week of August inside uncovered petri dishes. The July weeks, as you can see from these results, also has an effective effect on the mortalty larvae, by solar heating, as the highest larval mortalty was recorded at 63.33% for the 45-minute period at 12.00 noon inside uncovered petri dishes also., while the lowest percentage of killing larvae, 19.16%, was recorded for the exposure period of 15 minutes at 10.00 a.m.. It is worth noting here that the interaction between weeks and the exposure time also has an important and significant impact on the percentage of larvae killing, recording its highest percentage of 93.33% for the interaction between 4th Augast week and The exposure time 45 minutes at 2.00 p.m. in uncovered petri dishes, while the lowest larval stage percentage killing 10.00% was recorded for the interaction treatment between the 1st July week and the exposure time, 15 minutes for the treatment at 10.00 a.m. inside uncovered petri dishes. The results also showed that the effect of sunlight on the larval stage inside covered Petri dishes varied according to the three different exposure time included in this study. The highest rate of killing larvae was recorded, 100%, 100% larvae, all of which were observed for 15, 30, and 45 minutes for the two hour periods of larvae. 12.00 noon and 2.00 p.m. The results also showed that the four weeks observed in this study had a significant and clear effect on the rate of larval stimulation, recording its highest rate of 84.44% larvae in the 2nd Augast week inside covered petri dishes, while the lowest larval stage mortality 77.31% larvae was recorded in the 1st Augast week inside covered petri dishes also.

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Control of Sitophilus oryzae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in bags of wheat using solar radiation

Cited by 6 publications

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A logarithmically amortising temperature effect for supervised learning of wheat solar disinfestation of rice weevil Sitophilus oryzae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) using plastic bags

A logarithmically amortising temperature effect for supervised learning of wheat solar disinfestation of rice weevil Sitophilus oryzae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) using plastic bags

Dataset of thermal behaviour and weather data of thermal disinfestation of Sitophilus oryzae in plastic bags using solar heating

The Effect of Solar Heating on Lesser Grain Borer, Rhyzopertha dominica (Fab.) (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae)

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