PMID- 34564258
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20210930
IS  - 2075-4450 (Print)
IS  - 2075-4450 (Electronic)
IS  - 2075-4450 (Linking)
VI  - 12
IP  - 9
DP  - 2021 Sep 12
TI  - A Pest or Otherwise? Encounter of Oryctes rhinoceros (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) 
      with Persistent Organic Pollutants.
LID - 10.3390/insects12090818 [doi]
LID - 818
AB  - The potential use of invertebrates as bioreactors to treat environmental 
      pollutants is promising and of great interest. Three types of the persistent 
      organic pollutants (POPs), namely pentachlorophenol (PCP), PAHs (naphthalene and 
      phenanthrene) and dieldrin (DLN), were spiked in soil and treated by using 
      Oryctes rhinoceros larvae, a known pest of coconut trees in southeast Asia, and 
      also the indicators of POP toxicity and the fate and degradability of the 
      ingested POPs were assessed. The larvae were tested at various levels of the POPs 
      and went through an acclimation process. Without acclimation, the tolerance 
      limits of the larvae toward PCP, PAHs and DLN were 200, 100 and 0.1 mg/kg-soil, 
      respectively, yet with acclimation, the tolerance levels increased to 800, 400 
      and 0.5 mg/kg-soil, respectively. Biodegradation rates of all the tested POPs 
      were >90% by week 2, with <5% and nearly 0% remaining in the feces and body of 
      the larvae, respectively. The results suggest that the use of the beetle larvae 
      in soil POP decontamination is doable.
FAU - Shen, Meng-Wei
AU  - Shen MW
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8319-0871
AD  - Ph.D. Program in Engineering Science and Technology, College of Engineering, 
      National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung City 82445, 
      Taiwan.
FAU - Chen, Hung-Chuan
AU  - Chen HC
AD  - Department of Safety, Health and Environmental Engineering, National Kaohsiung 
      University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung City 82445, Taiwan.
FAU - Chen, Shyi-Tien
AU  - Chen ST
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4441-1173
AD  - Department of Safety, Health and Environmental Engineering, National Kaohsiung 
      University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung City 82445, Taiwan.
LA  - eng
GR  - MOST 109-2221-E-992 -007 -MY2/Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210912
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Insects
JT  - Insects
JID - 101574235
PMC - PMC8467767
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Oryctes rhinoceros larvae
OT  - POP mass flow
OT  - dieldrin (DLN)
OT  - pentachlorophenol (PCP)
OT  - persistent organic pollutants (POPs)
OT  - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in the 
      design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in 
      the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results.
EDAT- 2021/09/27 06:00
MHDA- 2021/09/27 06:01
PMCR- 2021/09/12
CRDT- 2021/09/26 21:03
PHST- 2021/07/07 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/08/24 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2021/09/03 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/09/26 21:03 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/09/27 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/09/27 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2021/09/12 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - insects12090818 [pii]
AID - insects-12-00818 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/insects12090818 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Insects. 2021 Sep 12;12(9):818. doi: 10.3390/insects12090818.