Chemical control of the cabbage stem flea beetle, Psy Modes chrysocephala, on winter oil‐seed rape
- 1 April 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Annals of Applied Biology
- Vol. 85 (3) , 369-374
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7348.1977.tb01922.x
Abstract
SUMMARY: In East Anglia, from 1974 to 1976, field experiments were carried out on the chemical control of the cabbage stem flea beetle (PsyModes chrysocephala). Carbofuran, 5% granules, proved an outstanding autumn preventive and mid‐winter eradicant treatment under both wet and dry conditions, with 1–5‐2‐24 kg a.i./ha giving virtually 100% control of larvae. Fonofos and phorate granules at 2–24 kg a.i./ha were also effective. AC 92 100 and thiofanox granules were less extensively tested but both gave good control of P. chrysocephala. Several materials showed little or no activity against the pest. The effective preventive granule treatments were all superior to a standard spray of gamma‐HCH.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- CABBAGE STEM FLEA BEETLE IN EAST ANGLIAPlant Pathology, 1961