Claim · model-written summary
Sprayed onions yielded 13% more in 2018 than unsprayed onions.
- Taxon
- onions
Allium cepae0 - Treatment
- spinosad + neem oile1
- Outcome
- yieldse0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 13%e0
- Comparator
- unsprayede0
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Verbatim
e0“produced higher yields (13% (2018), 23% (2019)) than onions that were unsprayed”
e1“Onions sprayed with spinosad + neem oil had fewer T. tabaci”
Title
Management of Onion Thrips (Thrips tabaci) in Organic Onion Production Using Multiple IPM Tactics
Lindsy Iglesias; Michael J. Havey; Brian A. Nault Insects 2021. doi:10.3390/insects12030207
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Sprayed onions had 74% fewer adult thrips in 2019 than unsprayed onions.
- Intervention effect Sprayed onions had 40% fewer thrips larvae in 2018.
- Intervention effect Sprayed onions had 84% fewer thrips larvae in 2019.
- Intervention effect Sprayed onions yielded 23% more in 2019 than unsprayed onions.
- Observation Rossa di Milano had 21% fewer thrips than Bradley in 2018.
- Observation Rossa di Milano had 32% fewer thrips than Bradley in 2019.
- Observation Rossa di Milano had fewer thrips than B5336AxB5351C.
- Observation Rossa di Milano had the lowest marketable yield in both years.
- Intervention effect Reflective mulch reduced thrips densities on certain dates versus white mulch.
- Observation Reflective mulch had its largest and most consistent thrips reduction in 2019.
- Intervention effect Reflective mulch had no impact on onion bulb yield.
- Intervention effect None of the treatment combinations suppressed thrips populations effectively.
- Recommendation Authors recommend optimizing effective biopesticides for future onion thrips management.