Claim · model-written summary
Imidacloprid reduced whitefly densities.
- Taxon
- common bean
Phaseolus vulgarise1 - Treatment
- Imidaclopride0
- Interactor
- whiteflye0pest
- Outcome
- whitefly densitiese0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“Imidacloprid effectively reduced whitefly densities”
e1“common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)”
Title
Hugh Adam Smith; Robert McSorley; Jose Arnoldo Sierra Izaguirre Environmental Entomology 2001. doi:10.1603/0046-225x-30.1.89
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Intercropping did not reduce whitefly densities on common bean.
- Intervention effect Adding intercropping to imidacloprid gave no advantage over imidacloprid in monoculture.
- Intervention effect Laundry detergent failed to protect against whiteflies or other sucking insects.
- Intervention effect Vegetable oil failed to protect against whiteflies or other sucking insects.
- Observation Trialeurodes vaporariorum was the predominant local whitefly.
- Observation Bemisia tabaci comprised about 10% of bean whiteflies at the end of the dry season.
- Observation Bemisia tabaci comprised 46% of bean whiteflies in the middle of the rainy season.
- Observation Bemisia tabaci comprised 1.15% of bean whiteflies toward the end of the rainy season.
- Observation Encarsia pergandiella was the predominant whitefly parasitoid.
- Observation Encarsia pergandiella was the only parasitoid reared from whitefly nymphs on bean in the dry season.
- Observation Members of the Encarsia meritoria species complex were recovered from tomato in the rainy season.
- Observation Amitus fuscipennis was recovered from tomato in the rainy season.
- Intervention effect Parasitoid diversity increased on tomato intercropped with roselle and corn during the rainy season.