Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control

Table 1 Efficacy rate of Nesidiocoris tenuis against Bemisia tabaci nymphs and adults as a function of treatment and time

From: Effect of the native strain of the predator Nesidiocoris tenuis Reuter and the entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria bassiana and Lecanicillium muscarium against Bemisia tabaci (Genn.) under greenhouse conditions in Tunisia

	Nymphs				Adult
Weeks	1 N/PL	2 N/PL	3 N/PL	4 N/PL	1N/PL	2 N/PL	3 N/PL	4 N/PL
3	19.36	51.71	51.94	87.17	43.48	52.00	81.71	80.52
4	63.56	61.47	63.04	70.09	26.04	27.64	2.82	40.04
5	83.13	85.48	87.00	91.29	69.23	70.00	70.88	77.12
6	82.95	81.30	89.21	89.74	86.29	86.22	86.19	89.60
7	91.29	91.94	90.60	92.31	94.94	94.68	96.46	93.98
8	95.11	95.17	95.80	94.62	96.08	96.15	95.10	95.80
9	96.74	96.61	96.29	95.73	95.42	95.59	96.40	97.69
10	96.80	97.00	98.11	97.46	97.15	97.08	97.99	98.20
11	97.72	97.46	96.58	97.96	97.53	97.74	98.30	97.50
12	98.02	97.91	98.46	98.44	97.77	97.84	96.68	96.67
13	98.28	98.34	98.44	98.33	98.22	98.04	98.65	98.83
14	98.60	98.50	98.44	98.80	98.25	98.33	98.71	98.34

N/PL number of Nesidiocoris tenuis per plant

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