Enhanced Microbial Degradation of Systemic Pesticides in Soil and Its Effect on Chinch Bug Blissus leucopterus leucopterus (Say) (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) and Greenbug Schizaphis graminum Rondani (Homoptera: Aphididae) Control in Seedling Sorghum
- 1 August 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Environmental Entomology
- Vol. 13 (4) , 1079-1082
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/13.4.1079
Abstract
Enhanced microbial degradation was found to occur in soils from several Kansas fields with a history of carbofuran use and it affected the systemic control of chinch bugs and greenbugs in seedling sorghum. Two other carbamate compounds also were degraded more rapidly in biologically active soils but aldicarb, phorate, and terbufos were not. The importance of pesticide biodegradation in sorghum insect control is demonstrated.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: