Claim · model-written summary
The biological control approach offered pesticide-free produce and reduced production costs.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativust0 - Treatment
- biological control approache0
- Outcome
- pesticide-free produce and reduced production costse0
- Direction
- reducede0
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t0“cucumber”
e0“the biological control approach offered the advantage of pesticide-free produce and reduced production costs”
Title
Dalia Adly; Ahmad Said Sanad Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control 2024. doi:10.1186/s41938-024-00806-3
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect The high release rate greenhouse (BIO 2) showed the highest aphid population reduction, 84.55% in 2022 and 89.88% in 2023.
- Intervention effect Both low (BIO 1) and high (BIO 2) release rate greenhouses had significant whitefly population reductions of 71.31 and 72.01% in 2022 and 82.05 and 85.94% in 2023.
- Intervention effect Thrips populations were notably reduced in BIO 1 and BIO 2 greenhouses, by 72.08 and 75.71% in 2022 and 59.93 and 61.38% in 2023.
- Intervention effect The pesticide treatment gave the lowest reduction of aphid, whitefly and thrips populations in both seasons.
- Intervention effect In all treatments in both seasons, the high release rate of the predatory mite P. persimilis (15 individuals/m2) was highly effective in keeping mite populations below the economic threshold.
- Intervention effect Two-spotted spider mite density increased in the pesticide-treated greenhouse, which the authors take to indicate pesticide resistance.
- Intervention effect The tested control programs resulted in similar yields.
- Recommendation For winter greenhouse cucumber, the authors recommend biological control agents at a low release rate at early pest occurrence.