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Table 1 Weekly releases and rates of biological control agents in biological greenhouses and pesticides application in chemical greenhouse and their rates, in tomato winter plantation 2018–2019

From: Impact of combine releases of the egg parasitoid, Trichogramma euproctidis (Girault) and the entomopathogenic nematode, Heterorhabditis bacteriophora to control Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) in tomato greenhouses in Egypt

Week

Biological control

Chemical control

Release

Rate

Pesticide

Rate

2

-

-

Vertimec 1.8% EC

25 cm/100 l

3

-

-

Micronized Sulfur

250gm/100 l

4

-

-

-

-

5

T. euproctidis

50 parasitoids/m2

Mospilan 20% SP

25gm/100 l

6

H. bacteriophora

100 IJs/ml

Vertimec 1.8% EC + micronized sulfur

100 cm/100 l + 250gm/100 l

7

T. euproctidis

50 parasitoids/m2

  

8

H. bacteriophora

100 IJs/ml

Mospilan 20% SP

25gm/100 l

9

T. euproctidis

50 parasitoids/m2

Mospilan 20% SP

25gm/100 l

10

H. bacteriophora

100 IJs/ml

  

11

T. euproctidis

50 parasitoids/m2

Vertimec 1.8% EC

100 cm/100 l

12

H. bacteriophora

100 IJs/ml

  

13

T. euproctidis

50 parasitoids/m2

Vertimec 1.8% EC

100 cm/100 l

14

H. bacteriophora

100 IJs/ml

  

15

T. euproctidis

50 parasitoids/m2

  

16

H. bacteriophora

100 IJs/ml

  

17

T. euproctidis

50 parasitoids/m2

  

18

-

-