bean weevil, chemical control, pesticides, stored bean seeds
Abstract
The paper presents the positive results obtained by some pesticides applied against the bean weevil - Acanthoscelides obtectus Say, after a synthetic rewiew of the potential chemical methods which may be used in the chemical control of the insectes harmful to the stored bean seeds. The chemical control is realised treatments wits syntetic pyrethroid (permetrin, deltametrin) and organophosphoric insecticides (malation, pirimifos metil, fenitrotion and chlrorpirifos-metil).