Claim · model-written summary
Avermectin was highly toxic to the whitefly predator on brinjal and tomato.
- Taxon
- brinjal and tomato
Solanum lycopersicum
Solanum melongenat0 - Treatment
- Avermectine7
- Interactor
- M. caliginosusMacrolophus caliginosuse0biocontrol_agent
- Outcome
- highly toxic to the predatore0
- Direction
- highly toxice0
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Verbatim
e0“However, it was highly toxic to the predator, M. caliginosus.”
t0“brinjal and tomato”
e7“The effect treatments with the recommended application rates of avermectin, buprofezin, white oil, lambda-cyhalothrin and cyromazine on Trialeurodes vaporariorum Westwood (Aleyrodidae: Homoptera) was evaluated.”
Title
Mohd Rasdi, Z.; Che Salmah, M.R.; Abu Hassan, A.; et al. AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA) 2012. doi:10.22004/ag.econ.197976
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Tested pesticides significantly reduced whitefly larvae on brinjal.
- Intervention effect Tested pesticides significantly reduced whitefly larvae on tomato.
- Intervention effect Tested pesticides other than white oil also affected the whitefly predator on brinjal and tomato.
- Intervention effect Avermectin was most effective against whitefly populations on brinjal and tomato.
- Recommendation The authors judged buprofezin suitable for whitefly control, particularly during fruiting.
- Recommendation The authors judged white oil suitable for whitefly control, particularly during fruiting.
- Recommendation The authors recommend selecting effective pesticides with low harm to natural enemies and timing their application for whitefly IPM.