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Pak. J. Bot., 43(1): 659-668, 2011. QUANTITATIVE LOSSES AND PHYSICAL DAMAGE CAUSED TO wheat KERNEL (TRITICUM AESTIVUM L.) BY KHAPRA BEETLE INFESTATION MUHAMMAD SHOAIB AHMEDANI1, *2, SYED NADEEM AFZAL3, M. NAEEM4, T. HUSSAIN5 AND S. NAZ6 1Deanship of Quality and Development, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia 2Department of Plant Pathology, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan 3,6Department of Water Management, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan 4Department of Entomology, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan 5Department of FR &W, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan *Corresponding author E-mail: Abstract wheat and other cereals sustain huge QUANTITATIVE and qualitative LOSSES each year all over the world due to the attack of storage pests. The DAMAGE caused by Khapra beetle is comparatively greater than other pests because of its ability to increase rapidly even under unfavourable environmental conditions.

LOSSES CAUSED TO WHEAT BY KHAPRA BEETLE 661 Collection and mass rearing of insects: Mixed age cultures of T. granarium were collected from farm houses as well as wheat stores of the Punjab Food Department

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