Data from: Challenges in assessing repellency as an integrated pest management tool to protect stored grains, using the global pest <i>T</i><i>ribolium castaneum</i>

The work completed here assessed the repellency behavior of different essential oils on the red flour beetle, <i>Tribolium castaneum. </i>The goal was to understand how non-chemical and naturally occurring oils could serve as repellents to stored product insect pests, leading to lower risk integrated pest management techniques. The work assessed 15 different oils for initial repellency in a small wind tunnel assay and performed further repellency assays on 7 that showed some potential in repelling the insects. Other assays used on the 7 potential oils were a larger wind tunnel assay, a bin assay that assessed taxis to the oil, and an overall behavioral assay that assessed distance moved, speed, and angular turning in the presence of the oil. We found inconsistent results of repellency of these oils, but a significant impact of the oils and whether red flour beetles were by themselves or in groups. The data provided here detail proximity to the oil for the small and large wind tunnel and the bin assays as well as distance metrics as calculated by the behavioral tracking program Ethovision XT.Small wind tunnel data: treatment (oil or water), close = number of individuals close to the treatment, far = number of individuals far from the treatment, experiment = group or individual.Large wind tunnel data: treatment (oil or water), S = number of individuals at stimulus edge, NS = no response, A = Away from treatment, B = close to tunnel.Ethovision Data: rep = replicate beetle, all treatments are across the top, ethovision_output = identity of Ethovision calculation.Bin Taxis: Treatment = repellent oil present, close = near oil, far = away from oil, oil_pair = what the control was paired with (for oils it is just repeated), time = duration of exposure.本研究评估了不同精油对赤拟谷盗（*Tribolium castaneum*）的驱避行为。研究目标为明确非化学天然精油如何作为储粮害虫驱避剂，进而开发低风险的害虫综合防治技术。 研究首先通过小型风洞试验对15种精油的初始驱避效果进行评估，并对其中7种表现出一定驱避潜力的精油开展了后续验证试验。针对这7种候选精油的补充试验包括：大型风洞试验、评估昆虫对精油趋向性的箱式试验，以及用于检测精油存在条件下昆虫移动距离、移动速度和转向角度的综合行为试验。 研究结果显示，这些精油的驱避效果并不一致，但精油本身以及赤拟谷盗是否以单头或群体形式存在，均对试验结果产生了显著影响。本数据集包含小型风洞、大型风洞及箱式试验中昆虫与精油的相对位置数据，以及通过行为追踪软件Ethovision XT计算得到的距离相关指标。各数据集的字段说明如下： 1. 小型风洞数据：处理组（treatment，分为精油或清水）、close（靠近处理区域的个体数量）、far（远离处理区域的个体数量）、experiment（单头试验组或群体试验组）。 2. 大型风洞数据：处理组（treatment，分为精油或清水）、S（位于刺激源边缘的个体数量）、NS（无响应个体）、A（远离处理区域的个体）、B（靠近风洞区域的个体）。 3. Ethovision数据：rep（重复试验的甲虫个体）、all treatments（所有处理组）、ethovision_output（Ethovision计算得到的指标标识）。 4. 箱式趋向试验：Treatment（施加驱避精油的处理组）、close（靠近精油区域的个体数量）、far（远离精油区域的个体数量）、oil_pair（对照组所配对的试剂，对于精油处理组仅为重复标识）、time（昆虫暴露时长）。