INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT International Peer Reviewed & Refereed Journals, Open Access Journal ISSN Approved Journal No: 2456-4184 | Impact factor: 8.76 | ESTD Year: 2016
Scholarly open access journals, Peer-reviewed, and Refereed Journals, Impact factor 8.76 (Calculate by google scholar and Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research Tool) , Multidisciplinary, Monthly, Indexing in all major database & Metadata, Citation Generator, Digital Object Identifier(DOI)
Insect Biodiversity study is known to be effective means of determining ecosystems health status and means of identifying areas of conservation action. Field survey of insects was conducted from 6 sampling sites within Owala dam and Ilobu in Osun State, Nigeria. Investigation was done in the year 2019 and 2021. This survey was carried out in both wet and dry seasons. Insects were trapped by Malaise trap, pitfall trap and insects nets on plants and aquatic body in the sampling sites. Data collected was analyzed by using descriptive (tables and charts) and inferential statistics. Paleontological Statistics Software package (PAST) was used to analyze the population of insects in the six sampling sites. One way anova was used to test for significant difference in the diversity of insects among the locations. In this study, 5406 individual insects were captured, 343 species were recorded belonging to 103 families of 17 orders. The results obtained showed that insects are most diverse in reserved areas and the herbivore insects are most common insects in the region. Most reported order of insect captured was Hymenoptera with 14.93% and least captured order was Mantodea with 0.28%. This study shows that Coleoptera is the most diverse order of insect in the study area with 64 different species recorded in 16 families. This study also shows that collection from Owala dam areas were statistically differs (P ≤ 0.05) from that of Ilobu areas and insects are more diverse at Owala areas than that of Ilobu.
Keywords:
Diversity, family, captured, reserved, order
Cite Article:
"Insect Biodiversity within Owala Dam and Ilobu, Southwestern Nigeria", International Journal of Novel Research and Development (www.ijnrd.org), ISSN:2456-4184, Vol.8, Issue 5, page no.b619-b642, May-2023, Available :http://www.ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2305182.pdf
Downloads:
000118752
ISSN:
2456-4184 | IMPACT FACTOR: 8.76 Calculated By Google Scholar| ESTD YEAR: 2016
An International Scholarly Open Access Journal, Peer-Reviewed, Refereed Journal Impact Factor 8.76 Calculate by Google Scholar and Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research Tool, Multidisciplinary, Monthly, Multilanguage Journal Indexing in All Major Database & Metadata, Citation Generator
Facebook Twitter Instagram LinkedIn