Relation of Composition to the Efficiency of Foliage or Summer Type Petroleum Fractions1, 2, 3
- 1 April 1943
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 36 (2) , 241-247
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/36.2.241
Abstract
Petroleum fractions of the so-called summer-type spray oils were tested to determine their efficiency in killing eggs of the oriental fruit moth, the codling moth, and the eye-spotted but moth Spilonota ocellana. Efficiency was found to be related to the chem. composition of the oils. Thus, the oil most predominately paraffinic was 6 times as efficient as some oils of the naphthenic type. Contrary to common belief, highly refined or white oils were more efficient than the corresponding less refined products; i.e., efficiency was increased with the removal of the aromatic constituents. The 3 spp. of insects studied showed no significant difference in their response to the oils tested.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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