Claim · model-written summary
Quarantine and management protocols applied in Qassim decreased the number of palm infestations.
- Taxon
- date palm
Phoenix dactyliferae0 - Treatment
- quarantine and management protocolse1
- Interactor
- R. ferruginouse1pest
- Outcome
- number of palm infestationse1
- Direction
- decreasede1
- Setting
- Qassime1
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“The infested date palm trees percentage was relatively high in 2016 (2.24%) and 2017 (3.19%)”
e1“The quarantine and management protocols of R. ferruginous applied in Qassim decreased the number of palm infestations”
Title
N. F. Abdel-Baky; M. A. Aldeghairi; M. I. Motawei; et al. Brazilian Journal of Biology 2022. doi:10.1590/1519-6984.263707
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation The infested date palm percentage decreased gradually to its lowest value of 0.73% in 2020.
- Observation The number of infested date palms varied according to years and locations.
- Observation The highest infested percentage, 4.31%, was in location G (SA7).
- Observation The general infested percentage average in location A (SA1) was 1.21, very low compared with location G (SA7).
- Observation The general infested percentage average in location H (SA8) was 0.47%, very low compared with location G (SA7).
- Intervention effect Effectiveness of control methods increased sharply from 52.141% in 2015 to 90.0% in 2020, with a general average of 72.73%.
- Mechanism Intensive insecticide use in the last two decades may have promoted mutations leading to a new species, R. bilineatus.
- Association Intensive insecticide use is associated with increased pesticide pollution.