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Table 6 The mortality rate of fifth stage cotton leafworm larvae at different exposure times

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

Nematode

Time

48 h

72 h

96 h

 

Steinernema carpocapsae

(Tokat-Bakışlı05)

87.68 ± 3.67

a*

B**

95.48 ± 2.46

a

AB

98.86 ± 1.14

a

A

F = 4.45,

p = 0.02

Steinernema feltiae

(Tokat-Emir)

82.08 ± 2.80

a

B

90.96 ± 2.65

ab

A

96.58 ± 1.71

ab

A

F = 9.04,

p = 0.00

Heterorhabditis bacteriophora

(TOK-20)

18.23 ± 3.92

c

A

33.31 ± 4.83

c

AB

44.16 ± 8.22

c

A

F = 5.33,

p = 0.01

Heterorhabditis bacteriophora

(11 KG)

64.16 ± 4.78

b

B

86.44 ± 3.39

b

A

89.74 ± 2.96

b

A

F = 9.30,

p = 0.00

Control

0.83 ± 0.83

  

1.67 ± 0.96

  

2.50 ± 0.83

   
 

F = 44.19, p = 0.00

F = 35.68, p = 0.00

F = 30.90, 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)