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Insecticidal Effect of Olive Mill Wastewaters on Potosia opaca (Coleoptera: Scarabeidae) Larva

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Olive mill wastewaters (OMW) are an environmental problem in olive oil producing countries such as Morocco. OMW are characterized by an acidic pH, a high electrical conductivity, and a composition rich in water, organic matter, dry matter and phenolic compounds. These effluents are usually dumped directly into the ecosystems without any prior treatment. Therefore, to mitigate the effects of OMW on the environment and to get benefit from its high phenolic content, we opted to use them as bio-insecticides in their crude form. Thus, crude OMW were tested by spray toxicity bioassay against Potosia opaca var. cardui Gyllenhal larva. The results showed that crude OMW were effective against this pest causing a weight loss similar to Cordus insecticide (17% vs. 15%) and mortality almost similar to Kemaban insecticide. In spray toxicity bioassay, the median lethal times (LT50 and LT90) showed that OMW exhibited comparable insecticidal activity (LT50 = 245.39 h, LT90 = 323.86 h) to Kemaban insecticide (0.5 µL/mL, LT50 = 208.01 h and LT90 = 233.91 h). The biocide properties of OMW depend mainly on its phenolic content. Ten phenolic compounds were identified using HPLC analysis, two of them were found to be the major monomeric phenolic compounds in OMW, hydroxytyrosol (0.248 g/L) and tyrosol (0.201 g/L). The obtained results confirm the potential application of OMW to control plant pathogens. The development of sustainable strategies based on the reuse of OMW for pests control in view to reduce the use of chemical and synthetic pesticides, may have considerable economic benefits.

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    Hanane Boutaj, Abderrahim Boutasknit, Mohamed Anli & Abdelilah Meddich

  2. Laboratory of Physico-Chemistry of Inorganic and Organic Materials, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Mohamed V University, Takaddoum, Rabat, 10200, Morocco

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  3. Food Sciences Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences – Semlalia, Cadi Ayyad University, 40 001, Marrakech, Morocco

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Boutaj, H., Boutasknit, A., Anli, M. et al. Insecticidal Effect of Olive Mill Wastewaters on Potosia opaca (Coleoptera: Scarabeidae) Larva. Waste Biomass Valor 11, 3397–3405 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-019-00682-1

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