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Pest Control: Managing Sucking Pests
2024/10/16 17:38:58


Pest Control: Managing Sucking Pests


Introduction

They can cause curly leaves, deformed fruit, withering, browning and drying of the entire crop. As a result of pest infestation, sucking pests act as vectors for viral diseases and can lead to serious yield losses by sucking the cell sap from crops.


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Sucking pests include aphids, leafhoppers, thrips, whitefly and mites. They all have one thing in common: their mouths have evolved for piercing and sucking their target plants. They suck sap from the host, and the nutrient poor host plant becomes stunted, distorted, yellowish and show reduced strength and premature leaf loss. Apart from transmitting disease organisms, some of these pests also inject toxic materials into the crop while feeding. To save your crops from heavy losses, we introduces you to the most important methods of control and prevention from sucking pests.


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Methods of Pest Control for Sucking Pests

In general, there are two types of measures to combat sucking pests, preventive and protective. Preventive measures focus on prevention and are taken before pest infestation, whereas protective measures are taken to control the pest after infestation. The pest control methods are as follows.

Preventive Measures

  • Use silver colored plastic mulch to cover the bed to repel sucking pests. Prior to planting the main crop, silver mulch will protect young crops until the foliage becomes lush.

  • Maintenance of good field sanitation. Eliminate sources of infestation to prevent populations from spreading from one season to the next.

  • Install yellow and blue sticky traps in large quantity at 30 cm from the ground to monitor the incidence of sucking pests and determine their severity.

  • Grow barrier-crops along the border of the main crop. Maize, for example, not only attracts white flies, but also protects the main crop from cold and hot winds.

  • Plan to grow companion crops that attract or deter sucking pests, e.g. some marigolds attract thrips/aphids and can be used as trap crops.

  • Avoid excessive use of nitrogen fertilizers. Too much fertilizer allows the plants to grow uncontrollably, which in turn increases the potential of sucking pest infestation.

  • Strictly follow weed management.

  • A proper pruning of the crops facilitate better aeration and retard pest pressure.


Biological Controls of Sucking Pests

Beneficial insects such as predatory ladybirds, lacewings, soldier beetles and parasitoid wasps are important agents for pest control of several sucking pests like aphids, mites and leafhoppers. Aphids are captured by various species of beneficial insects. A high degree of control is usually exercised by these natural enemies. For example, the cultivation of cow beans as under intercrops or on irrigation grids increases the build up of the natural enemy.


Chemical Measures

Using pesticides/insecticides is followed on a large scale for pest control aphids, thrips and other sucking pests. It's more effective and faster when compared to other methods.

Source: Plantix


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King's Newmat from King Quenson, has shown an outstanding performance against the broad spectrum sucking pests in field applications. Its key active ingredient Spirotetramat opens a new horizon for sucking pest control. The target pests include aphids, thrips, psyllids, whiteflies, mealybugs, scale insects, leafhoppers and mites.


King's Newmat is the unique modern two-way systemic insecticide in the world. After foliar application, King's Newmat penetrates through the leaf cuticle and translocate as Spirotetramat-enol through xylem and phloem, up to the growing shoots and down to the roots. King's Newmat acts as an inhibitor of lipid biosynthesis and affects juvenile stages with additional effects on adult fecundity.


This double systemic mode of action ensures King's Newmat to provide multiple benefits. It provides broad spectrum sucking pest control through strong ovicidal activity, larvicidal activity and adult fecundity. The highly systemic two way translocation allows King's Newmat to protect the entire plant for up to 8 weeks with simply one foliar spraying, and to effective control the hidden and soil-living sucking pests. All these features makes King's Newmat an excellent rotation partner and mixture partner, and no cross-resistance to any other insecticide


King’s Newmat provides wide spectrum control of sucking pests. Its unique two-way systemic action allows it to translocate and protect the entire plant up to the leaves and down to the roots. It’s an excellent tool to Resistant Management Programmes, and it’s generally friendly to beneficial insects.


In this study on cotton, Pymetrozine was the traditional insecticide to control cotton aphids. When we mix King’s Newmat with Pymetrozine, the joint control effect takes place from the 2nd day after one application. The cotton aphid population reduced 95.17%, comparing to the 67.72% that only used Pymetrozine.


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Another benefit of mixing King's Newmat with other insecticides is that it provides long-lasting crop protection. In another study on Chinese pepper, King’s Newmat is applied together with Flonicamid. Starting from the 2nd day of application, the aphid control effect last for as long as 21 days. The new leaves also benefit from the effective protection, and the tree vigor restored after being infested by aphids.


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