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2017

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Efficacy Of Trichogramma Evanescens And Bacillus Thuringiensis Var. Kurstaki In Control Of Cydia Pomonella (L.) In Turkey, Sevcan Öztemi̇z, Ali̇ Küden, Serpi̇l Nas, Işilay Lavkor Jan 2017

Efficacy Of Trichogramma Evanescens And Bacillus Thuringiensis Var. Kurstaki In Control Of Cydia Pomonella (L.) In Turkey, Sevcan Öztemi̇z, Ali̇ Küden, Serpi̇l Nas, Işilay Lavkor

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of Trichogramma evanescens Westwood (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) release with as well as without Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki (Berliner) in biological control of Cydia pomonella (L.) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in the Galaxy Gala apple variety grafted onto M9 rootstock in 2016. Four treatments were analyzed: releasing T. evanescens alone (TE), applying B. thuringiensis var. kurstaki (BT) alone, applying both (TE + BT), and a control (C) without any application at all. The experiment design entailed randomized blocks with four replicates. In each generation of the egg stage, 100,000 parasitoids per hectare were released twice (1440 …