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Table 2 The mean ± SD effect of cropping pattern and maize variety on the number of tunnels and tunnels length caused by Fall Army Worm on maize cultivated in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria under two pheromone trap heights as a means of determining population dynamics

From: Population dynamics of Fall Army Worm [(Spodoptera frugiperda) J.E. Smith] (Lepidoptera: Nuctuidae) in maize-cassava intercrop using pheromone traps in Niger Delta Region

Damage level

Pheromone trap height

Sole Maize variety

Cassava-Maize variety Intercrop

Mean ± SD

OBA Super 98

White Maize

Yellow Maize

OBA Super 98

White Maize

Yellow Maize

No. of tunnel

1 m

1.73 ± 0.17

3.07 ± 0.74

3.33 ± 0.47

1.60 ± 0.67

3.73 ± 1.35

3.13 ± 1.09

2.33 ± 1.19

1.5 m

1.80 ± 0.47

2.40 ± 0.45

0.67 ± 0.30

4.67 ± 1.09

5.80 ± 1.31

5.80 ± 1.41

2.83 ± 0.95

Mean ± SD

1.77 ± 0.32

2.73 ± 0.84

2.00 ± 0.39

3.13 ± 0.79

4.77 ± 1.83

4.47 ± 175

4.21 ± 0.23

Tunnel length

1 m

4.89 ± 1.38

7.06 ± 2.57

7.45 ± 1.76

4.83 ± 1.90

7.61 ± 2.44

4.12 ± 1.55

5.65 ± 1.04

1.5 m

5.57 ± 1.65

7.63 ± 1.46

3.75 ± 1.35

12.31 ± 1.63

11.88 ± 2.75

12.27 ± 2.94

8.42 ± 2.21

Mean ± SD

5.23 ± 1.52

7.35 ± 1.02

5.60 ± 1.56

8.57 ± 1.27

9.75 ± 2.52

8.20 ± 1.75

7.21 ± 1.13