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