Claim · model-written summary
Managing the seasonal timing of trunk injection can reduce insecticide exposure risk for pollinators in apple.
- Taxon
- apples
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- managing the seasonal timing of injectione7
- Interactor
- pollinatorse7pollinator
- Outcome
- risk of insecticide exposure to pollinatorse7
- Direction
- reducee7
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Verbatim
t0“trunk injection in apples”
e7“This study also shows that managing the seasonal timing of injection can reduce the risk of insecticide exposure to pollinators”
Title
Charles C Coslor; Christine Vandervoort; John C Wise Pest Management Science 2018. doi:10.1002/ps.5268
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Neonicotinoid trunk injection reduced Empoasca fabae density in apple trees in the field.
- Intervention effect Emamectin benzoate, chlorantraniliprole and abamectin trunk injection resulted in moderate to high mortality in apple trees.
- Intervention effect Emamectin benzoate, chlorantraniliprole and abamectin trunk injection reduced Choristoneura rosaceana feeding in bioassays.
- Intervention effect Imidacloprid trunk-injected in spring was not detected in apple nectar or pollen.
- Intervention effect Imidacloprid injected the previous fall was detected at 0.39 ng g −1 in apple pollen.
- Intervention effect Emamectin benzoate injected the previous fall was not detected in apple nectar or pollen.
- Intervention effect Emamectin benzoate injected in spring was detected at 7.36 ng g −1 in apple nectar.
- Intervention effect Emamectin benzoate injected in spring was detected at 1.15 ng g −1 in apple pollen.
- Observation The study identified a broader list of possible trunk‐injectable pesticides for apple trees.