Claim · model-written summary
More selective insecticides are recommended to reduce harm to chickpea leafminer natural enemies.
- Taxon
- chickpea
Cicer arietinume0 - Outcome
- use of more selective insecticidese0
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Verbatim
e0“Hence, the use of more selective insecticides should be recommended to reduce the negative side-effects on the chickpea leafminer natural enemies.”
Title
Effect of Deltamethrin on the Leaf Miner (Liriomyza cicerina) of Chickpea and its Parasitoids
Laboratoire de Biotechnologie Appliquée à l’Agriculture, INRAT, Université de Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia; Abir Soltani; Soumaya Haouel-Hamdi; et al. Tunisian Journal of Plant Protection 2020. doi:10.52543/tjpp.15.2.3
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Deltamethrin reduced captured pest adults in Nour by 64.15% in 2017 relative to controls.
- Intervention effect Deltamethrin reduced captured pest adults in Amdoun by 60.17% in 2017 relative to controls.
- Observation Opius monilicornis had the highest parasitism rate, 26.09%, on control samples of Nour.
- Observation Diaulinopsis arenaria had the lowest parasitism rate, 2.88%, on treated samples of Nour.
- Association Leaf miner larval and adult mortalities were higher for the spring variety in all experiments.
- Association Parasitoid mortalities were higher for the spring variety in all experiments.