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Research Project: EVALUATION OF INSECTICIDES FOR PEST CONTROL IN SWEETPOTATO IN MISSISSIPPI

Location: Southern Insect Management Research Unit

2006 Annual Report


4d.Progress report.
This report serves to document research conducted under a Specific Cooperative Agreement between Mississippi State University and ARS. Additional details for this subordinate project may be found in the in-house project 6402-22000-045-00D entitled, "Integrated Pest Management for Mid-South Area Row Crops." Plots of sweetpotato, variety Beauregard, were planted at the Alcorn State Demonstration Farm for the purpose of evaluating efficacy and benefit of insecticides applied as foliarly during the season. Insects expected in the samples included flea beetles (Chaetocnema spp., Systena spp.), cucumber beetles (primarily Diabrotica undecimpunctata howrdi Barber [12 spotted cucumber beetle]), whitefringed beetle (Graphongnatus spp.), and various click beetles and lepidobtera larve. Sugarcane beetle, Euetheola humilis rugicieps (LeConte), and whitefringed beetle were not found in any of the vacuum or other samples at the Mound Bayou location; however, some potatoes had damage identified as that from both insect pests. There were no statistically significant differences between means of the untreated (water) check and plots and means of insect numbers found under vines on two sample dates.


   

 
Project Team
Abel, Craig
Michael Williams - Extension Entomologist
 
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  Crop Protection & Quarantine (304)
 
 
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