Research Article Biorational Control of Callosobruchus maculatus (Coleoptera: Buchidae) in Stored Grains with Botanical Extracts Rasheed Akbar , 1 Imtiaz Ali Khan , 2 Brekhna Faheem , 3 Rashid Azad , 1 Maid Zaman , 1 Rubab Altaf , 1 Amjad Usman , 2 Muhammad Fawad , 4 Abid Farid , 1 Ahmad Ur Rahman Saljoqi , 5 Asad Syed , 6 Ali H. Bahkali , 6 Abdallah M. Elgorban , 6 Jawad Ali Shah , 7 and Abdul Qayyum 8 1 Department of Entomology, The University of Haripur, Haripur 22620, Pakistan 2 Department of Entomology, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan 3 Department of Zoology, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan 4 Department of Environmental Sciences, The University of Haripur, Haripur 22620, Pakistan 5 Department of Plant Protection, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan 6 Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia 7 Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agrobiology Food & Natural Resources, Czech University of life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic 8 Department of Agronomy, The University of Haripur, Haripur 22620, Pakistan Correspondence should be addressed to Rasheed Akbar; rasheed.akbar@uoh.edu.pk Received 14 June 2022; Accepted 16 August 2022; Published 29 August 2022 Academic Editor: Hafiz Ishfaq Ahmad Copyright © 2022 Rasheed Akbar et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Globally, around 2000 plant species are used against pest control. The utilization of botanicals is considered the most economic and biodegradable methods for the control of stored grains pests. Therefore, the current study was carried out to investigate the repellency potential of five botanicals against Callosbruchus maculatus F. in Haripur, Pakistan. The concentrations of Azadirachta indica L., Nicotiana tabacum L., Melia azedarach L., Nicotiana rustica L., and Thuja orientalis L. were, i.e., 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, and 3.0% in four replicates to establish contact effects. The data were recorded after 1, 2, 3, 6, 24, 48, 72, and 96 hours. The repellency effect of these plant species against C. maculatus were increased in both the time- and dose-dependent manner, and highest effect was observed at 72 h. In addition, the repellency effect was 91% for A. indica (class: V), 86% M. azedarach, 82%, N. tabacum (class: V), 79% N. rustica (class: IV), and 75% T. orientalis (class: IV) at 3% concentration against C. maculatus. Furthermore, following 96 hours’ exposure to treatment the sensitivity response of insects decreases as the time interval increases, i.e., 86% A. indica (class: V) was followed by 71% M. azedarach (class: IV), 65% N. tabacum (class: IV), 61% N. rustica (class: IV), and T. orientalis 57% (class: III) repellency at highest concentration of 3%. The current study concluded that A. indica and M. azedarach can be incorporated for the management of C. maculatus and these plant species might be helpful in the productions of new biopesticides. 1. Introduction The practice of using plant extracts as biopesticides or medicines is well known [1]. As many as 2000 plant spe- cies are in use globally in the control of insect pests. Local people adopt more economic and biodegradable method used as different plant part extracts as pesticides against stored products [2]. However, the effectiveness or use of biopesticide increases as pest management in field and stored product pests [3]. Among the stored products, insect pests, the Genus Callosbruchus causes annual losses to different stored Hindawi BioMed Research International Volume 2022, Article ID 3443578, 10 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/3443578