Claim · model-written summary
Intercropping significantly reduced stemborer larvae and pupae on maize.
- Treatment
- intercrope2
- Interactor
- lepidopteran stemborerse1pest
- Outcome
- larvae and pupaee2
- Direction
- significantly fewere2
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Verbatim
e1“The effects of maize–cowpea intercropping on three lepidopteran stemborers ( Chilo partellus (Swinhoe) C. orichalcociliellus (Strand) and Sesamia calamistis Hampson) and their natural enemies were studied in Kenya”
e2“Oviposition was not affected by intercropping, but significantly fewer larvae and pupae were found in the intercrop”
Title
Effects of intercropping on maize stemborers and their natural enemies
Henrik Skovgård; Peeter Päts Bulletin of Entomological Research 1996. doi:10.1017/s0007485300039407
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Intercropping did not affect oviposition by lepidopteran stemborers on maize.
- Intervention effect Egg parasitism was significantly higher in the maize intercrop, reaching up to 80%.
- Intervention effect Larval and pupal parasitism stayed between 3 and 20% and was not affected by intercropping on maize.
- Intervention effect The main predators, ants and wandering spiders, were not augmented by intercropping on maize.
- Association Ant and wandering spider abundances showed an inverse relationship in maize intercrops.
- Recommendation Maize intercropped with cowpea has only limited potential as a method of controlling the key pests.