The Effectiveness Cigarette Butts as Liquid Anti-Termite

Abstract

The main food of termites is cellulose. Wooden home furniture is often eaten by termites. Even termites can damage building construction. We can find cigarette butts around us that it becomes a waste that pollutes the environment. Nicotine alkaloid substances can paralyze the nerves and it's really effective to control insects including termites. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of tobacco content liquid antitermite to control termites. The method is used as a wood-decoy technique that is smearing and soaking with liquid anti-termites of each tobacco mass containing 1 gr, 2 gr, 3 gr, 4 gr, 5 gr, and 6 gr. Observations are conducted once in every 3 hours for 24 hours. The results of this study show that the most effective liquid anti-termite to control termites is liquid anti-termite with a mass content of 6 grams of tobacco, the percentage of mortality at 12 hours of observation reaches 100% and the mass of wood does not decrease.

Laboratory Test of Cigarette Butt Waste and Soursop Leaf (Annona muricata L.) Extracts as Biopesticides of Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda)

“…Nicotine can be toxic to certain organisms, so that it can be used as a natural insecticide (Villaverde et al, 2016). In addition, cigarette butt extract showed good performance as bioinsecticide against Anopheles stephensi which caused malaria (Murugan et al, 2018), termites (Syifa et al, 2020), house fly larvae (Musca domestica L.) (Ahmed, 2018), and Aedes aegypti (Dieng et al, 2014).…”