Journal of Crop Protection

Susceptibility of western flower thrips Frankliniella occidentalis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) to some synthetic and botanical insecticides under laboratory conditions

10.48311/jcp.2015.1244
Volume 4, Issue 5
December 2015
Pages 627-632
Journal of Crop Protection

Authors

Z. Gholami 1
A. Sadeghi 1
A. Sheikhi Garjan 2
J. Nazemi Rafi 1
F. Gholami 3

1 Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran.

2 Department of Agricultural Entomology Research, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Tehran, Iran.

3 Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran.

Abstract
This study was conducted to investigate commercial formulations of insecticides against western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande).The insects were collected from commercial greenhouses of cucumber in Varamin, Iran. The tested insecticides were diazinon (EC 60%), cypermethrin (EC 40%), fipronil (EC 2.5%), imidacloprid (SC 35%) and a botanical insecticide oxymatrine (Kingbo, AS 0.6%). Fipronil had the highest efficacy among all tested insecticides (LC50 = 17.97 ppm). However, imidacloprid had the lowest efficacy (LC50 = 2303 ppm). The oxymatrine was effective (LC50 = 69.94 ppm) after fipronil.

Keywords

bioassay
Insecticides
Frankliniella occidentalis
fipronil
oxymatrine
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