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Table 1 Effect of different treatments against P. 14-punctata under laboratory conditions

From: Sustainable pest management approach against the hog plum leaf beetle, Podontia 14-punctata Linn. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

Treatments

Mortality (%)

Larva

Pupa

Adult

T1

36.11c

51.85a

25.00c

T2

75.00a

19.44b

72.22a

T3

52.78b

17.78b

55.56b

T4

61.11b

13.89b

58.33b

T5 = untreated control

36.11c

13.10b

22.22c

  1. All means followed by same letters at each column are not significantly different by Tukey’s multiple range tests, ANOVA (P < 0.05)
  2. T1 = soil drenching with microbial pesticides, Lycomax, Russell IPM; T2 = spraying spinosad at hog-plum leaflet; T3 = spraying azadirachtin at hog-plum leaflet; T4 = spraying of chlorpyripos + cypermethrin at hog-plum leaflet