Contact Toxicity, Grain-Protective Efficacy, and Behavioral Effects of Methyl Benzoate and Acetophenone Against Four Major Stored-Product Insect Pests.

Gomaa R M Ramadan, Thomas W Phillips, Mostafa A I Taha

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Article in Insects, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Gomaa R M RamadanDepartment of Pesticide Chemistry and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University, El-Shatby, Alexandria 21545, Egypt.

Thomas W PhillipsDepartment of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5196-6994

Mostafa A I TahaDepartment of Pesticide Chemistry and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University, El-Shatby, Alexandria 21545, Egypt.

Funding

Kansas State University 27-044-J

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although the fumigant activity of the naturally occurring compounds methyl benzoate and its analogues has been extensively evaluated against stored-product insect pests, their contact toxicity when applied as residual surface sprays and grain protectants, as well as their repellent effects, remains poorly studied. The current study evaluated the contact toxicity of methyl benzoate (MB) and a related natural product, acetophenone (AP), on glass surfaces and on wheat grains, along with their repellent activity, against adults of the lesser grain borer,

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contact toxicityrepellencyRhyzopertha dominicaSitophilus oryzaeTribolium castaneumTrogoderma granariumwheat grains

Identifiers

PMID42783325

DOI10.3390/insects17090958

PMCPMC13607482

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