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Pesticides against the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae koch, 1836 on cotton

This test was carried out in Santa Bárbara D'Oeste, State of São Paulo, Brazil. The treatments and quantities of active ingredients per hectare were: A - check (no pesticide); B -biphenthrin, 70 g; C - carbamate UC 81341 , 150 g; D -biphenthrin, 50 g; E - carbamate UC 81341, 100 g; F-bromopropilate, 500 g; - clofentezine, 500g. Endosulfan was added to each experimental pesticide in order to control the cotton boll weevil Anthonomus grandis grandis Boh. In the first avaluations the best control was obtained with biphenthrin. In the last avaluations, clofentezine was the best.

the two-spotted spider mite; cotton; Tetranychus urticae; pesticides


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