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Developing Alternative Practices For Management Of Flea Beetles Attacking Eggplant And Leafy Brassicaceous Greens, Robert Brockman
Developing Alternative Practices For Management Of Flea Beetles Attacking Eggplant And Leafy Brassicaceous Greens, Robert Brockman
Theses and Dissertations--Entomology
Flea beetles are a challenging pest for many producers of vegetable crops in Kentucky. Chewing numerous small holes in the leaves of their host plants, high flea beetle populations can quickly overwhelm unestablished crops. I tested the efficacy of several alternatives to insecticides within brassicaceous leafy greens and eggplant. Four field trials in 2019 and 2020 compared essential oil sprays, the woven-mesh row cover ProtekNet, the spunbonded row cover Agribon, and reflective silver mulch to an untreated control, a conventional insecticide rotation of dinotefuran and pyrethroids, and an organic insecticide rotation of spinosad and pyrethrins. The silver reflective mulch was …