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Table 7 The mortality rate of fourth 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)

81.92 ± 5.30

a*

B**

94.26 ± 2.50

a

A

96.55 ± 2.44

a

A

F = 4.43,

p = 0.02

Steinernema feltiae

(Tokat-Emir)

87.57 ± 3.30

a

B

98.85 ± 1.15

a

A

98.85 ± 1.15

a

A

F = 10.84, p = 0.28

Heterorhabditis bacteriophora

(TOK-20)

23.14 ± 3.83

c

B

37.95 ± 6.45

c

AB

43.70 ± 8.10

c

A

F = 2.90,

p = 0.08

Heterorhabditis bacteriophora

(11 KG)

51.40 ± 8.09

b

A

66.68 ± 7.67

b

A

72.42 ± 8.27

b

A

F = 2.16,

p = 0.14

Control

1.67 ± 0.96

  

3.33 ± 0.00

  

3.33 ± 0.00

   
 

F = 23.83, p = 0.00

F = 31.27, p = 0.00

F = 20.02, 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)