Importan Pest Control in Warehouse

Warehouse pest insects generally attack the product sits in storage (warehouse). Warehouse pest has the potential to cause yield loss in the product during storage. Yield losses caused by storage pests can reach 10-15% of the contents of the warehouse. Insect pests are insects that have been shed adapted well to the storage environment, because:

   1. Reservoir storage is a natural habitat
   2. High tolerance to physical factors in storage
   3. The diversity of feeding habits in a variety of materials stored
   4. High reproductive rate
   5. High ability in finding the location of food sources
   6. Ability to survive in conditions without food
   7. Adaptation of the morphology (small size, flat shape, fast motion, etc.)

 Warehouse pest characteristics:
Warehouse pest insects have common characteristics, namely:

1. His body consists of three parts head, thorax (Thorax), and stomach (abdomen)
2. The outside of the body covered by the outer skin (exoskeleton)
3. During his life experienced miraculous transformation phase (Metamorphosis)

Eggs

Generally placed in or above the surface of the grains, the dust on the floor, cracks and crevices in the warehouse. Stadia eggs vary from one species to each other.

Flyblow

After some time the eggs hatch into larvae (caterpillars), stadia stadia larva is most harmful, because the larvae of insect pests attack the commodity with a very greedy and destructive. However, the larvae are most vulnerable stadia to be controlled with insecticides.

Pupa

Pupa is a rest period in the development of larvae into adults. During this period the pupa of insect pests do not eat and did not move. Like the egg stadia, stadia pupa is the most difficult to be killed by insecticides.


Adult Insect

The main function of the adult insect is to reproduction. Body size of adult insect pests of the order Coleoptera are generally small, but the insect's body size depends on the type of food and the environment in which they live. The small size is very easy to infiltrate insect pests in the smallest gap. Moths are very fragile and can not get into the pile of commodities.

PEST CONTROL WAREHOUSE KEY

Order Coleoptera (beetles = weevil / beetle) is a group of insects of the most attacking stored products. There are 40 families found in the storage area. Of these, probably less than 100 species that regularly breed in stored material. Almost all the important post-harvest pests only from seven families, namely: bostrichidae, bruchidae, Cucujidae, Curculionidae, Dermestidae, Silvanidae. And Tenebrionidae.

Family bruchidae, bostrichidae, and Curculionidae role as primary pests, while the family Cucujidae, Silvanidae and Tenebrionidae are secondary pests. Some members of the family Cleridae and Dermestidae attack on the storage of meat commodities. There is also affecting the storage building made of wood, namely the family Bostrichidae, Lyctidae, and Scolytidae.