EFFECT OF IMIDICLOPRID SEED TREATMENT AND PLANTING TIME APPLICATIONS OF INSECTICIDES ON CHINCH BUG (HEMIPTERA, LYGAEIDAE) AND RESULTING YIELDS OF SORGHUM

Authors
Citation
G. Wilde, EFFECT OF IMIDICLOPRID SEED TREATMENT AND PLANTING TIME APPLICATIONS OF INSECTICIDES ON CHINCH BUG (HEMIPTERA, LYGAEIDAE) AND RESULTING YIELDS OF SORGHUM, Journal of agricultural entomology, 14(4), 1997, pp. 385-391
Citations number
7
ISSN journal
0735939X
Volume
14
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
385 - 391
Database
ISI
SICI code
0735-939X(1997)14:4<385:EOISTA>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
Imidicloprid seed treatment was compared with standard soil-applied in secticides for chinch bug (Blissus leucopterous leucopterous [Say]) co ntrol on seedling sorghum (Sorghum bicolor [L.]) to determine the usef ulness of this new seed treatment in Kansas where the chinch bug is a primary pest of sorghum. Seeds of treated and untreated sorghum were p lanted over a 6-yr period in plots at various locations in eastern Kan sas where chinch bugs move from maturing wheat or barley into seedling sorghum. During all years and tests, the imidicloprid treatment (2.5g AI/kg of seed) compared favorably with carbofuran applied as a granul e or liquid or with aldicarb applied as a granule in-furrow in control ling chinch bugs and protecting sorghum yields. Thus, the imidicloprid seed treatment gives growers another option to reduce losses from chi nch bugs.