The effectiveness of some conventional and bio rational insecticides on the maskell scale insect, Insulaspis pallidula (Green) on mango trees in Ismailia Governorate.
Moussa S. F. M., El-Rahman A. S. M. A., Mosleh Y. Y., Mohamed M. R. A.
Author Affiliation: Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt.
Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences: Entomology 5 : 81-86
Abstract : An experiment was carried out at the 2nd of January, 2007 at Fayed district, Ismailia Government, to evaluate the effectiveness of some conventional insecticides, bio-pesticides and Mineral oils on the Maskell scale insect, Insulaspis pallidula (Green) infested Mango trees, Mangifiera indica L. The obtained results obviously showed that Admiral was the most affective compound, which gave 83.35% percentage of reduction, followed by Biover (79.46%), Bioranza (78.88%), Conserve (73.96%) and Malathion (71.60%) reduction percentage. The least effective compound was Masrona oil which gave (68.52%) percentage of reduction.