Development of imidacloprid and indoxacarb formulations to nanoformulations and their efficacy against Spodoptera littoralis (Boisd)

Bulletin of the National Research Centre

Table 3 Effect of imidacloprid and indoxacarb nanoparticles against the second instar larvae of S. littoralis

Insecticides	The percentages of mortalities
	C1	C2	C3	Slope ± SE	LC₅₀ and fudecial limits
	Means ± SE	Means ± SE	Means ± SE	Slope ± SE	LC₅₀ and fudecial limits
Imidacloprid	75.0 ± 5.0^b	50.0 ± 5.0^b	35.0 ± 5.0^b	1.8 ± 0.3	15.9 (12.7–19.4)
Indoxacarb	95.0 ± 5.0^a	80.0 ± 5.0^a	58.3 ± 2.9^a	2.3 ± 0.4	2.9 (2.0–3.6)
Control	1.7 ± 2.9^c	0.0^c	1.7 ± 2.9^c
F values*	372.5***	294.0***	175.2***
LSD_5%	8.8	8.2	7.4

*Means under each variety sharing the same letter in a column are not significantly different at P < 0.05