Effects of insecticides on the adult melon thrips, Thrips palmi Karny (Thysanoptera: Thripidae)

Abstract

We used the leaf-dipping method to determine the toxicity of 10 insecticides on the adult melon thrips, Thrips palmi, collected from Kanan Town and Tondabayashi City in Osaka Prefecture. Flometoquin and fluxametamide were effective against T. palmi. The toxicity of nitenpyram and emamectin benzoate depended on the collected population. Acetamiprid, spinetoram, abamectin, chlorfenapyr, cyantraniliprole, and pyridalyl showed low corrected mortality in all populations.