PROTECTION OF Bombyx mori L. LARVAE AGAINST CERTAIN DISEASES USING SOME CHEMICAL DISINFECTANTS

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Faculty of Science, Botany Department, Zawia University , Zawia, Libya

2 Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Science,Plant Production Department, Zawia University , Zawia, Libya

Abstract

This study was conducted to evaluate the use of flom fort, potassium sulphonate and dettol compounds as disenfectants and their impacts on the biological characteristics and production of silk in silkworm Bombyx mori L artificially infected with bacteria that causes  filahari disease.
Treatments achieved that potassium sulphonate (0.1% and  0.05%) resulted lower mortality rate, the highest  percentage of adult emergency, fertility of the female and hatching percentage , and also increased  the resulting cocoon weight , silk content ratio, the filament length per cocoon, weight and size of the reeled filament. flom fort (0.1 and 0.05%) increased adult emergence percentage, ,female  fecundity, silk cocoon ratio and the length of reeled filament. while treatment of mulberry leaves with dettol (0.1%) increased the cocoon shell weight.
 

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