STONE FRUIT TREE PESTS: (9) ALTERNATIVE MEANS OF CONTROL OF MACROTOMA PALMATA BY HORTICULTURAL, MECHANICAL, MICROBIOLOGICAL AND LOCAL CHEMICAL TREATMENTS IN APRICOT ORCHARDS IN EGYPT | ||
Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Research | ||
Article 6, Volume 85, Issue 3, September 2007, Pages 847-861 PDF (4.14 M) | ||
Document Type: Original Article | ||
DOI: 10.21608/ejar.2007.226404 | ||
Authors | ||
ANTWAN W. TADROS1; AMINA M. ABD EL-RAHMAN2; RADY M. ABDEL- ELATY1 | ||
1Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt | ||
2Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt | ||
Abstract | ||
Alternative means of control of Macrotoma palmate (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in apricot orchards by horticultural, mechanical, microbiological, and local chemical treatments were evaluated at Tokh district, Qalubia governorate during one and two successive years (1999/2000 and 2000/2001). The respective rates reductions of infestation with the following 13 treatments applied for one and two successive years were as follows: dormant pruning (8.15 increased to 10.39%), summer pruning (0.74 increased to 1.30%), dormant and summer pruning (8.89 increased to 11.69%), worming (26.67 increased to 33.77%), bacterial or fungal (2.96 or 4.44 increased to 3.90 or 5.19%), local painting or local spraying (50.37 or 51.11 increased to 62.34 or 61.04%), pruning, worming, together with bacterial or fungal (34.07 or 32.59 increased to 44.16 or 41.56%), and pruning, worming, and local painting or local spraying (71.85 or 70.37 increased to 77.92 or 7532%) treatments. The integrated control program of ptosima undecimmacu lata, Chlorophorus varius, Macrotoma palmata, and Scolytus amygdall) was successfully achieved by pruning, worming, and could be promoted by local chemical treatments. | ||
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