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Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control

Table 1 Mortality percentages of the brown-tail moth, Euproctis chrysorrhoea, larvae in response to nucleopolyhedrovirus (N = 50)

From: First record of a nucleopolyhedrovirus infecting brown-tail moth larvae, Euproctis chrysorrhoea (L.) (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) in India

NPV concentration

(OBs/ml)

Number of insects killed

#Mortality (%)

1 × 108

45 ± 3.7

88.89 ± 9.9a

1 × 106

39 ± 3.1

75.56 ± 5.2b

1 × 104

28 ± 3.1

49.89 ± 3.9d

1 × 102

19 ± 1.6

35.94 ± 2.7d

Control

06 ± 0.9

12.00 ± 1.1e

  1. Data are means ± SE. Values within the same column followed by a different letter are significantly different at P < 0.05 (Tukey’s test). #Percentage of mortality was corrected by Abbot’s formula
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