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Table 5 Efficacy of nematode isolates and concentrations mortality rate on third instar of cotton leafworm larvae

From: Biological control potential of local entomopathogenic nematodes against the different stage larvae of cotton leafworm Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Nematode

Concentrations

 

50 IJs/ml

100 IJs/ml

200 IJs/ml

Control

 

Steinernema carpocapsae

(Tokat-Bakışlı05)

81.82 ± 3.69

b*

C**

89.78 ± 2.95

a

B

100.00 ± 0.00

a

A

6.67 ± 0.00

F = 20.33, p = 0.00

Steinernema feltiae

(Tokat-Emir)

89.80 ± 3.80

a

B

89.76 ± 2.41

a

B

97.74 ± 2.26

a

A

0.00 ± 0.00

F = 3.68, p = 0.04

Heterorhabditis bacteriophora

(TOK-20)

16.82 ± 2.65

d

B

54.51 ± 6.78

b

A

62.47 ± 4.77

b

A

1.11 ± 1.11

F = 22.99, p = 0.00

Heterorhabditis bacteriophora

(11 KG)

45.37 ± 4.71

c

B

56.73 ± 3.25

b

B

69.28 ± 4.48

b

A

2.22 ± 1.11

F = 8.31, p = 0.00

 

F = 54.66, p = 0.00

F = 18.35, p = 0.00

F = 60.06, p = 0.00

  
  1. *Means within column bearing the same letter are not significantly different (Duncan’s test, p > 0.05)
  2. **Means within lines bearing the same letter are not significantly different (Duncan’s test, p > 0.05)