Claim · model-written summary
Insecticides mixed in sand are more efficacious against FAW larvae, with yield increase, than spraying.
- Treatment
- insecticides mixed in sand applicatione6
- Interactor
- FAWe6pest
- Outcome
- FAW larvaee6
- Direction
- more efficaciouse6
- Comparator
- sprayinge6
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Verbatim
t0“Field evaluation of whorl application of sand mixed or spray insecticides against Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on yield of maize”
e6“These results indicate that insecticides mixed in sand application are more efficacious against FAW larvae along with yield increase than spraying”
Title
Seham Mansour Ismail Bulletin of the National Research Centre/Bulletin of the National Research Center 2024. doi:10.1186/s42269-024-01177-3
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Insecticides mixed in sand significantly decreased FAW larvae in maize compared with spraying or untreated plots.
- Intervention effect Insecticides mixed in sand gave significantly higher maize yields than spraying or untreated plots.
- Intervention effect Chlorantraniliprole was the most effective insecticide, ahead of emamectin benzoate and spinosad.
- Intervention effect Emamectin benzoate and spinosad gave better control of FAW than conventional insecticides.
- Intervention effect Emamectin benzoate and spinosad gave higher maize yield than conventional insecticides.
- Intervention effect Chlorantraniliprole mixed in sand gave the highest decrease in FAW density, 93.69% in 2021 and 91.59% in 2022.
- Intervention effect Sprayed chlorantraniliprole gave a FAW density decrease of 84.74% in 2021 and 85.78% in 2022.
- Intervention effect Lambda-cyhalothrin sprayed on maize had the highest FAW density, 33.86% in 2021 and 32.72% in 2022.
- Intervention effect Sprayed lambda-cyhalothrin gave the lowest significant maize yield, an 8.98% and 8.00% increase over control plots in 2021 and 2022.