ORGANOPHOSPHATE COMPOUNDS FOR THE CONTROL OF THE ONION MAGGOT, HYLEMYA ANTIQUA (MEIGEN) (DIPTERA: ANTHOMYIIDAE) RESISTANT TO CYCLODIENE INSECTICIDES IN SOUTHWESTERN QUEBEC

1962 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 616-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Perron ◽  
J. Lafrance

Diazinon and V-C-13 granular formulations, applied as furrow treatments at the rate of 1 and 2 pounds toxicant per acre, and diazinon wettable powder as seed treatment at [Formula: see text] ounces toxicant per pound of seed, effectively controlled populations of the onion maggot, Hylemya antiqua (Meigen) resistant to cyclodiene insecticides in southwestern Quebec, in both mineral and organic soils. EN 18133 granular formulation was also very effective but caused a slight delay in germination without, however, affecting the stand or decreasing the yield to any extent. Ethion, Trithion and Guthion granular formulations as furrow treatments at either 1 or 2 pounds toxicant per acre, and also as wettable powder seed treatments at the rate of 1 ounce toxicant per pound of seed, were significantly inferior to Diazinon, V-C-13 and EN 18133. Dylox water soluble powder, applied as a drench post-emergence treatment at 4 pounds toxicant per acre, gave poor control.

1960 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Perron ◽  
J. Lafrance

In organic soils of southwestern Quebec from 1955 to 1958, dieldrin heptachlor and endrin wettable powders mixed at the rate of 1 ounce of toxicant per pound of onion seed applied for the control of the onion maggot, Hylemya antiqua (Meig.) were highly effective. The heptachlor treatment appeared to stimulate plant growth. Toxaphene as seed treatment was poor, while di-syston also as seed treatment was effective but reduced germination by one-third. A soil surface treatment with chlordane dust at 4.5 pounds of toxicant per acre gave also a fair control where seed had not been treated. Combinations of dieldrin or DDT seed treatments with chlordane or aldrin soil surface treatments when plants averaged 2 inches high were not more effective than a seed treatment alone.


1957 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 252-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. G. Finlayson

Experiments at two localities in the interior of British Columbia in 1952 and 1953 showed that a seed treatment of dieldrin at 0.5 oz. per pound of seed gave as good control of the onion maggot as any other treatment, was not phytotoxic, and gave the highest yield of marketable onions each year. Lindane, 25 per cent wettable powder, applied three times at 10-day intervals to the soil surface at 1 lb. of toxicant per acre per application gave consistently good control and high yields, but was more expensive in both labour and materials. Calomel at 1 lb. per pound of seed gave satisfactory control in a light infestation but cost twenty times as much as dieldrin. DDT at 8 oz. per pound of seed gave effective control but the bulk of insecticide on the seed caused jamming of the seeder. When the amount of DDT was reduced the degree of damage increased. Lindane as a seed treatment at 1 oz. per pound of seed was extremely phytotoxic. The same amount of aldrin applied in a similar manner was phytotoxic but to a lesser degree.


1958 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 176-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Perron ◽  
J. Lafrance ◽  
M. Hudon

Several Canadian workers have reported various results in the control of the onion maggot, Hylemya antiqua (Meig.), with chemicals applied to the soil surface (Dustan, 1938; Matthewman et al., 1942; McLeod, 1946; Perron et al., 1953; Finlayson and Handford, 1954). In these tests, the date of the first application of insecticide coincided with early oviposition of the insect, the second and third applications following at weekly or ten-day intervals. Satisfactory control was therefore dependent to a great extent on the grower's ability to recognize the beginning of oviposition by the pest in the field. However, many growers find this recognition difficult and poor control often results from the three-application program.


1959 ◽  
Vol 91 (10) ◽  
pp. 633-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Lafrance ◽  
J. P. Perron

This is a report on field observations and experiments on the life-history of the onion maggot, Hylemya antiqua (Meig.), conducted from 1955 to 1958 in sandy and organic soils of southwestern Quebec. The dates of emergence of adults, the number of generations, the percentage of pupae entering diapause in each generation, and the relationship between diapause, air temperature, and precipitation were recorded.


1970 ◽  
Vol 102 (12) ◽  
pp. 1554-1558 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. R. Allen ◽  
W. L. Askew

AbstractA gelatine-based diet for rearing the onion maggot, Hylemya antiqua (Meigen), that contains sucrose, evaporated milk, yeast hydrolysate, wheat embryo, cellulose powder, n-propyl disulfide, water, and antibiotics is described. Three consecutive generations reared on this medium were equal in puparial weights, percentages of pupation, adult emergence, and egg hatch, to those reared on onion bulbs. The procedure is simple and two man-hours per week is sufficient for producing 1000 maggots daily.


1952 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 112-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Perron ◽  
J. Lafrance

In investigations on the life-history of the onion maggot at St. Jean, Que., in 1951, a few specimens of a dipterous predator were found in the rearing cages in the laboratory. They were feeding voraciously on the adults, destroying a colony of nearly 300 flies within two weeks.Specimens were identified by Mr. A. R. Brooks, Systematic Entomology, Division of Entomology, Saskatoon, Sask., as Coenosia tigrina (F.). Mr. G. E. Shewell, Systematic Entomology, Division of Entomology, Ottawa, has stated that nothing is known in Canada about the life-history of this species, but that it is apparently well known as a predator in Europe and that B. M. Hobby has published a long list of species on which it preys, including many anthomyiids.


2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 223-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean C. Batzer ◽  
Yuba R. Kandel ◽  
Carl A. Bradley ◽  
Martin I. Chilvers ◽  
Albert U. Tenuta ◽  
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Early season brown spot caused by Septoria glycines was compared in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, and Ontario, Canada, soybean fields planted with differing commercial seed treatments. Seed treatments that included fluopyram significantly reduced brown spot (P < 0.001). A greenhouse mist chamber experiment revealed that fluopyram seed treatment reduced the Area Under Disease Progress Curve of brown spot over a 6-week period (P < 0.001). Brown spot severity was unaffected by plant age at inoculation for the control treatment without fluopyram (P = 0.911); however, severity increased with plant age at inoculation for the fluopyram treatment (P = 0.009). The sensitivity of two S. glycines isolates to fluopyram was assessed by determining the effective concentration required to reduce its colony diameter growth in culture by 50% (EC50). Both isolates had an EC50 of 0.41 μg/ml of fluopyram. These results demonstrate that fluopyram seed treatment is effecttive at controlling early season brown spot in soybean. Accepted for publication 19 September 2016.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 206-210
Author(s):  
Bhut JB ◽  
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Jethva DM ◽  
Naggana R ◽  
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Field experiment on evaluation of insecticidal seed treatments against white grub Holotrichia consanguinea Blachard infesting groundnut was conducted during kharif 2018 and 2019 at farmers field. The nine insecticides evaluated as seed treatment against white grub infesting groundnut, the lowest per cent plant morality and number of grub/m2 was observed in treatment of clothianidin 50 WDG @ 2 g a.i. /kg and imidacloprid 40 + fipronil 40 WG @ 3 g a.i. /kg. These treatments were produced 2329 and 2296 yield of pod, 3970 & 3780 kg/ha yield of halum, respectively. Increased in yield over control in these treatments was recorded 57.79 and 55.56 per cent in pod, 76.29 and 64.65 per cent in halum. Whereas avoidable yield loss recorded of these treatments was recorded 36.63 and 35.71 per cent in pod, 43.27 and 39.27 per cent in halum. However, the highest 1:28.32 NICRB was recorded in treatment of chlorpyriphos 20 EC @ 30 ml a.i. /kg. The NICRB of clothianidin 50 WDG @ 2 g a.i. /kg and imidacloprid 40 + fipronil 40 WG @ 3 g a.i. /kg were recorded 1:14.95 and 1:9.20, respectively. The evaluated insecticides had no adverse effect on seed germination


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 138-143
Author(s):  
A. J. Deshmukh ◽  
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A. N. Sabalpara ◽  
R. P. Bambharolia ◽  
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The experiment was conducted to perceive the effect of fungicidal seed treatment on seed borne diseases of green gram on susceptible cv. GM-3 with nine different fungicides. Results revealed that dry seed treatment with either mix formulation of carbendazim + mancozeb or thiophanate methyl or carbendazim @ 2.5 g kg-1 seeds is very effective in field to control Macrophomina leaf blight, Alternaria leaf spot and Anthracnose diseases. Two years pooled data indicated that PDI of Macrophomina leaf bilght was significantly lower in dry seed treatment with carbendazim + mancozeb (0.99%, 12.90%) which was statistically at par with thiophanate methyl (1.54%, 13.80%) followed by carbendazim (0.99%, 14.06%) at 35 and 65 DAS, respectively. Two years pooled data of Alternaria leaf spot indicated that the PDI of was significantly lower in dry seed treatment with carbendazim + mancozeb (2.64%, 11.15%) which was statistically at par with thiophanate methyl (2.74%, 11.30%) followed by carbendazim (2.84%, 11.37%) at 35 and 65 DAS. Two years pooled data of Anthracnose disease indicated that the PDI of Anthracnose was significantly lower in dry seed treatment with carbendazim + mancozeb (0.81%, 6.71%).


Author(s):  
R.E. Falloon

Effects of two different fungicide seed treatments, inoculation of seed with teliospores of the head smut fungus (Ustilago bullata Berk.), and five different autumn sowing dates, on establishment of prairie grass (Bromus willdenowii Kunth cv. 'Grasslands Matua,'), were examined in a field trial. Seedling establishment was increased by thiram seed treatment and decreased by inoculation of seed with U. bullata. Greater numbers of seedlings established from early sowings, when soil temperatures were higher, than from late sowings. Suitable seed treatments to increase the likelihood of successful establishment of prairie grass are discussed. Keywords: Bromus willdenowii, seedling establishment, seed treatments, thiram, Ustilago bullata, sowing dates, soil temperatures


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