Abstract
Use of abamectin for avocado thrips, Scirtothrips perseae, also has effects on the persea mite, Oligonychus perseae, and avocado bud mite, Tegolophus myersi, in Ventura County, California. In this study individual trees were treated with the standard insecticides for thrips, sabadilla (Veratran D) and abamectin (Agri-Mek), using a backpack sprayer, or left untreated. Sabadilla reduced S. perseae numbers on young and old leaves but failed to reduce O. perseae and T. myersi numbers. Abamectin significantly reduced numbers of all three pests. In addition, abamectin reduced the amount of leaf drop associated with O. perseae feeding. In a companion trial, where abamectin and sabadilla were applied by ground rig in one orchard and another orchard was left untreated, there were no differences in T. myersi populations. When all three pests are present, the use of abamectin may be a more efficient strategy than the use of sabadilla.
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Claims 9
Claim · model-written summary
Sabadilla reduced avocado thrips on young and old leaves.
- Taxon
- Avocado
Persea americanat0 - Organ / stage
- young and old leavese0
- Treatment
- Sabadillae0
- Interactor
- S. perseaeScirtothrips perseaee0pest
- Outcome
- S. perseae numberse0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“for Avocado Thrips”
e0“Sabadilla reduced S. perseae numbers on young and old leaves”
Claim · model-written summary
Sabadilla failed to reduce persea mite numbers.
- Taxon
- AvocadoPersea americanat0
- Treatment
- Sabadillae0
- Interactor
- O. perseaeOligonychus perseaee0pest
- Outcome
- O. perseaee0
- Direction
- failed to reducee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“for Avocado Thrips”
e0“Sabadilla reduced S. perseae numbers on young and old leaves but failed to reduce O. perseae and T. myersi numbers.”
Claim · model-written summary
Sabadilla failed to reduce avocado bud mite numbers.
- Taxon
- AvocadoPersea americanat0
- Treatment
- Sabadillae0
- Interactor
- T. myersie0pest
- Outcome
- T. myersi numberse0
- Direction
- failed to reducee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“for Avocado Thrips”
e0“Sabadilla reduced S. perseae numbers on young and old leaves but failed to reduce O. perseae and T. myersi numbers.”
Claim · model-written summary
Abamectin significantly reduced thrips numbers.
- Taxon
- AvocadoPersea americanat0
- Treatment
- Abamectine0
- Interactor
- Scirtothrips perseaeScirtothrips perseaee1pest
- Outcome
- numbers of all three pestse0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“for Avocado Thrips”
e0“Abamectin significantly reduced numbers of all three pests.”
e1“thrips, Scirtothrips perseae”
Claim · model-written summary
Abamectin significantly reduced persea mite numbers.
- Taxon
- AvocadoPersea americanat0
- Treatment
- Abamectine0
- Interactor
- Oligonychus perseaeOligonychus perseaee1pest
- Outcome
- numbers of all three pestse0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“for Avocado Thrips”
e0“Abamectin significantly reduced numbers of all three pests.”
e1“persea mite, Oligonychus perseae”
Claim · model-written summary
Abamectin significantly reduced avocado bud mite numbers.
- Taxon
- AvocadoPersea americanat0
- Treatment
- Abamectine0
- Interactor
- Tegolophus myersie1pest
- Outcome
- numbers of all three pestse0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“for Avocado Thrips”
e0“Abamectin significantly reduced numbers of all three pests.”
e1“avocado bud mite, Tegolophus myersi”
Claim · model-written summary
Abamectin reduced leaf drop associated with persea mite feeding.
- Taxon
- AvocadoPersea americanat0
- Treatment
- abamectine0
- Interactor
- O. perseaeOligonychus perseaee0pest
- Outcome
- leaf drope0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“for Avocado Thrips”
e0“abamectin reduced the amount of leaf drop associated with O. perseae feeding.”
Claim · model-written summary
In the ground-rig orchard comparison, bud mite populations did not differ.
- Taxon
- AvocadoPersea americanat0
- Treatment
- abamectin and sabadillae0
- Interactor
- T. myersie0pest
- Outcome
- T. myersi populationse0
- Direction
- no differencese0
- Comparator
- another orchard was left untreatede0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“for Avocado Thrips”
e0“abamectin and sabadilla were applied by ground rig in one orchard and another orchard was left untreated, there were no differences in T. myersi populations.”
Claim · model-written summary
When all three pests occur, authors suggest abamectin is more efficient than sabadilla.
- Taxon
- AvocadoPersea americanat0
- Outcome
- the use of abamectin may be a more efficient strategye0
- Qualifier
- When all three pests are presente0
- Comparator
- the use of sabadillae0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“for Avocado Thrips”
e0“When all three pests are present, the use of abamectin may be a more efficient strategy than the use of sabadilla.”