Editorial Type:
Article Category: Research Article
| Online Publication Date: 01 Jan 1991
Effect of Dormant Oil Treatments on White Peach Scale (Homoptera: Diaspididae) and its Overwintering Parasite Complex
Effect of Dormant Oil Treatments on White Peach Scale (Homoptera: Diaspididae) and its Overwintering Parasite Complex
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Page Range: 27 – 32
The effect of dormant oil treatments on the overwintering parasite complex of white peach scale, Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni-Tozzetti) was evaluated in a peach orchard in the southern coastal plain of North Carolina in 1988 and 1989. Oil treatments resulted in significant reductions in the emergence of adult hymenopteran parasites in both years. However, mortality was not complete, and a sufficient number of parasites survived to repopulate the orchard in spring.
Keywords:
Pseudaulacaspis pentagona
; white peach scale; biocontrol; parasites; dormant oil
Copyright: © 1991 Georgia Entomological Society, Inc.
Contributor Notes
2 Biological Control Laboratory, North Carolina Department of Agriculture, Raleigh, NC 27611
Accepted: 24 Sept 1990