Author(s):
Anderson Mathias Holtz, Caio Henrique Binda de Assis, Ana Beatriz Mamedes Piffer, José Romário de Carvalho, Ronilda Lana Aguiar and Dirceu Pratissoli
Abstract:
The study evaluated the acaricidal effect of aqueous extracts of green, mature and dried seeds of
Moringa oleifera Lam. aiming to control
Tetranychus urticae (Acari: Tetranychidae). Powder of green, ripe and dried seeds of
M. oleifera were used in the preparation of aqueous extracts. Petri dishes containing
Canavalia ensiformis (L.) D.C. leaf disc was used as arenas, with 10 replicates per treatment. First, the toxicity test was carried out, spraying the concentration of 20% (m / v) of each treatment on the mites in the arena. Later, the lethal concentration for
T. urticae was estimated. The extracts were toxic to
T. urticae, with higher mortality for green seed extracts, followed by mature seed extract. The green seed extract of
M. oleifera showed lower LC50 among the tested treatments. This demonstrates that seed extracts, in the early stage of development, are promising for the control of
T. urticae.
Anderson Mathias Holtz, Caio Henrique Binda de Assis, Ana Beatriz Mamedes Piffer, José Romário de Carvalho, Ronilda Lana Aguiar and Dirceu Pratissoli. Toxicity of Moringa oleifera Lam. seed extracts at different stages of maturation on Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae). J Pharmacogn Phytochem 2020;9(3):01-04.