RESPON TENEBRIO MOLITOR SETELAH APLIKASI EKSTRAK BIJI ALPUKAT (PERSEA AMERICANA MILL.) PADA OLFAKTOMETER
Daftar Isi:
- Avocados (Persea americana Mill.) are plants that thrive in tropical regions like Indonesia and have high antioxidant content. However, avocado seeds, which are one of the products of agricultural products, are still not fully utilized and only disposed of as waste. The research aims to determine the effect of repelence of various treatments of avocado seed extract (P. americana Mill.) on T. molitor. This research was conducted at the Laboratory of Nematology, Department of Pests and Plant Diseases, Faculty of Agriculture, Sriwijaya University, Indralaya. The research was conducted from November to December 2018. This study used a Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with 6 treatments, namely control, 1%, 1.5%, 2%, 2.5%, 3% which was repeated 4 times, average the highest repelency index was in the control treatment at 31.99%, while the lowest repelence index was in the 3% treatment at 26.02%. The highest percentage of T. molitor imago mortality was in the 3% treatment, namely 29.52%, while the lowest percentage of T. molitor imago mortality was in the control treatment, namely 24.16%.