Claim · model-written summary
Bifenthrin significantly reduced tuber damage in three of seven field experiments.
- Taxon
- potatoes
Solanum tuberosumt0 - Treatment
- bifenthrine0
- Interactor
- wirewormst0pest
- Outcome
- tuber damagee0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- 3 of the 7 field experimentse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the commercial standard insecticide, bifenthrin, significantly reduced tuber damage in 3 of the 7 field experiments”
t0“wireworms (Coleoptera: Elateridae) in potatoes”
Title
Burkholderia spp.-based biopesticide controls wireworms (Coleoptera: Elateridae) in potatoes
Mika K Pagani; Timothy B Johnson; Hélène B Doughty; et al. Journal of Economic Entomology 2023. doi:10.1093/jee/toad146
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect Laboratory soil drench caused 30% wireworm mortality.
- Intervention effect Laboratory soil drench significantly reduced wireworm feeding damage to potato tubers.
- Intervention effect Field in-furrow Burkholderia reduced wireworm tuber damage in two of seven trials.
- Recommendation The authors present the bacterial pesticide as another option for growers facing wireworm pressure, especially in organic systems.