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1 June 2007 Professional and Consumer Insecticides for Management of Adult Japanese Beetle on Hybrid Tea Rose
Garima Gupta, Vera A. Krischik
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In many states, Japanese beetle,Popillia japonica Newman (Coleoptera: Scarabeidae), is no longer quarantined, and management is left to professional applicators and consumers. Adult management in hybrid tea rose,Rosa L., was compared among biorational insecticides, novel imidacloprid applications (tablet, gel, and root dip), and conventional insecticides. Efficacy of biorational insecticides used by consumers varied widely and may not offer predictable management: mortality was 3.0% with Garlic Barrier, 5.0% with Monterey Neem Oil, 15.1% with Pygenic (1.4% pyrethrins), and 27.3% with Orange Guard (d–limonene). Only JB Killer (0.02% pyrethrins plus 0.2% piperonyl butoxide) had mortality of 90.9%, probably due to piperonyl butoxide. Professional biorationals did not show significant mortality: 7.7% with Azatin XL (azadirachtin) and 3.7% Conserve (spinosad). In contrast, conventional insecticides demonstrated significant mortality; 88.4% with Decathlon 20 WP (cyfluthrin) and 83.3% with Discus SC (imidacloprid plus cyfluthrin). New imidacloprid applications (tablet, gel, and root dip) worked as well as standard drench and granular methods, but they showed 9.1–42.7% mortality. However, beetles were incapacitated as demonstrated by inability to walk (82–106-s flip time) compared with controls (30-s flip time). No phytotoxicity was observed in any treatments. However, some imidacloprid treatments produced growth enhancement: higher leaf chlorophyll (1X, 3X granular, and one tablet), and larger leaf area and higher nitrogen (3X granular, drench). The highest (active ingredient) imidacloprid was in 3X granular treatment, which in an unplanned infestation, showed highest numbers of twospotted spider mite,Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae). Effects of imidacloprid on leaf quality and mite outbreaks deserves research.

Garima Gupta and Vera A. Krischik "Professional and Consumer Insecticides for Management of Adult Japanese Beetle on Hybrid Tea Rose," Journal of Economic Entomology 100(3), 830-837, (1 June 2007). https://doi.org/10.1603/0022-0493(2007)100[830:PACIFM]2.0.CO;2
Received: 2 November 2006; Accepted: 18 December 2006; Published: 1 June 2007
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KEYWORDS
biorational insecticides
hybrid tea rose
imidacloprid
Popillia japonica
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