Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-sxzjt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-23T16:14:11.262Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

INFLUENCE OF COMPANION PLANTS ON OVIPOSITION OF IMPORTED CABBAGEWORM, PIERIS RAPAE (LEPIDOPTERA: PIERIDAE), AND CABBAGE LOOPER, TRICHOPLUSIA NI (LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE), ON COLLARD PLANTS1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

M. A. Latheef  and
J. H. Ortiz
M. A. Latheef
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia 23803
J. H. Ortiz
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia 23803
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Public participation in home vegetable gardening and small farm operations is increasing in North America. This is expected to intensify the use of insecticides and disproportionately increase public exposure to them. For instance, von Rurnker et al. (1972) estimated that on an area basis homeowners in the midwestern United States applied ca. 5.0 lb of pesticides per acre. This amount when compared with 1½ to 3 lb per acre applied by the farmer suggests that backyard gardens receive a heavier pesticide application than most other land areas in the United States. It is, therefore, important to develop ecologically less aggressive control methods for small farm operations.

Type
Articles
Information
The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 115 , Issue 11 , November 1983 , pp. 1529 - 1531
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1983

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Buranday, R. P. and Raros, R. S.. 1975. Effect of cabbage-tomato intercropping on the incidence and oviposition of the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.) Phillip. Ent. 2: 369–374.Google Scholar
Calkins, C. D. (Ed.). 1979. Reader's Digest Illustrated Guide to Gardening, Reader's Digest, Pleasantville, N.Y.672 pp.Google Scholar
Extension Division. 1978. Natural control of insects in your home and garden. In Insect control for ornamentals, gardens and the home. Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. Publ. 482.Google Scholar
Gessell, S. G., Precheur, R. J., and Hepler, R. W.. 1975. Companionate plantings. Do they work? Natural Gardening Handb. 31. Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record Plants and Garden.Google Scholar
Hill, L. 1976. Nine plants to keep away pests. Org. Gardening and Farming 23: 82–83.Google Scholar
Kramer, C. Y. 1956. Extension of multiple range tests to group means with unequal numbers of replication. Biometrics 12: 307–310.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Latheef, M. A. and Irwin, R. D.. 1979. The effect of companionate planting on lepidopteran pests of cabbage. Can. Ent. 111: 863–864.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Latheef, M. A. and Irwin, R. D.. 1980. Effects of companionate planting on snap bean insects, Epilachna varivestis and Heliothis zea. Environ. Ent. 9: 195–198.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Latheef, M. A. and Ortiz, J. H.. 1983. The influence of companion herbs on egg distribution of the imported cabbageworm, Pieris rapae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae), on collard plants. Can. Ent. 115: 1031–1038.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rodale, R. 1975. The Best Gardening Ideas I Know. Rodale Press, Emmaus, PA.64 pp.Google Scholar
Von Rumker, R. et al. 1972. The use of pesticides in suburban homes and gardens and their impact on the aquatic environment. Pesticides Study Ser. 2. Office of Water Programs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., U.S. Gov't. Printing Office.Google Scholar
Yepsen, R. B. Jr. 1976. Organic Plant Protection. Rodale Press, Emmaus, PA.Google Scholar