Evaluating the efficacy of Capparis spinosa Total flavonoids to control Bird Lice (Menacanthus stramineus)

Abstract

The present study included an in-vitro and in-vivo insecticidal investigation for one of wild Iraqi plant Capparis spinosa total flavonids on locally chicken lice (Menacanthus stramineus). Extraction of total flavonoids from 115g of fresh plant samples by reflex extraction with 600ml distilled water with (10% v/ v) HCl, for 8 hours continuously and the aglycon part was obtained with ethyl acetate. The acetate layer was dried and the residue was weighted and subjected for qualitative and quantitative analysis. Three flavonoids concentrations of Capparis spinosa total Flavonoid (5,3 and 1) mg/ml in 100ml distilled water to treat a collected sample of Bird Lice (Menacanthus stramineus) in vitro and in vivo at different life stages in comparison to a traditional anti lice drug treatment permethrin (0.5mg/ml) as positive control. Distilled water application was considered as negative control. Results of present study showed that the plant was rich with different types of flavonoids and the effect of flavonoid extracts of the Capparis spinosa plant in the decimation of the different stage of chicken body lice, as the concentration factor had non-significant effect on the killing of adult and a significant effect on the killing of eggs/nymph, and this effect increased with the increase in the concentrations of the extract.

Evaluation of the in Vitro Efficacy of Capparis spinosa L. Alcoholic Extract in Controlling the Hairy Grain Beetle (khabra) Tragoderma granarium Everts (Coleoptera; Dermestidae)

“…The study of [15] revealed that the extract of the crude terpene compounds of C. spinosa had influences on the death and growth period of the small grain borer Rhizopertha dominica, where the cumulative mortality rate of the non-mature stages increased was 100% as a result of the treatment with the two concentrations of 5 and 10 mg/ml from both the leaf and fruit extracts, whereas the control treatment caused a rate of 22.2%. The results of the present investigation agree with those reported by [16], who tested the impacts of the crude extract of C. spinosa at concentrations of (50, 25, 12.5) mg/ml on the bird lice insect, where the mortality rate of nymphs reached 100%. The results presented here are also consistent with those reported by [15] who examined the influences of the alcoholic extract of Moringa oleifera on the insect Oryzaephilus.surinamensis.…”