Iranian Journal of Plant Protection Science

Iranian Journal of Plant Protection Science

Thermal biology Carob moth, Ectomyelois ceratoniae Zeller (Lep.: Pyralidae) Based on Degree-Day and Ikemoto-Takai linear models

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Soltan Ravan 1
Kabir Eyidozehi 2
Mahmoud Soufbaf 3
Abbas Khani 1
1 Associate Professorse of Plant Protection, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran.
2 PHD Student, Department of Plant Protection, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran.
3 Plant Protection Department-Nuclear Agriculture Research School- NSTRI- Karaj- Iran
10.22059/ijpps.2022.346072.1007009
Abstract
Carob moth, Ectomyelois ceratoniae Zeller (Lep.: Pyralidae) is an economic pest, polyphagous, and globally distributed that attacks many crops throughout field and storage times. Developmental time of incubation period, larval period, pupal period, and overall immature stages of the carob moth were recorded in temperatures ranging from 10 to 35 °C under laboratory conditions. According to results outputs, temperature affected significantly developmental time of the carob moth at 1% significance level and increasing temperature lead to decreasing developmental time. Degree-Day and Ikemoto-Takai linear models were used to describe temperature-dependent development of the carob moth in this research. Although both of the linear models had shown an acceptable fitting to the experimental data, due to better statistical criteria, estimation of the Ikemoto-Takai linear model was considered as thermal indices of the pest. Estimated values for thermal requirement of incubation period, total larval period, pupal period and overall immature stages of the carob moth were 46.19, 577.73, 167.44 and 831.00 degree-days, respectively. Moreover, the values of the lower temperature threshold for the mentioned developmental stages were 11.29, 4.29, 4.55 and 4.83°C, respectively, using Ikemoto-Takai linear model.
Keywords
Physiological development time
Growth and development
linear model
Ectomyelois ceratoniae
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Iranian Journal of Plant Protection Science
Volume 53, Issue 2
January 2023
Pages 225-238

  • Receive Date 28 July 2022
  • Revise Date 01 September 2022
  • Accept Date 13 September 2022