Table 3.
Effect of FMV and trapping area on the richness, abundance, and diversity of natural enemies of bean aphids during the 2019 and 2020 cropping seasons.
Field margin vegetation | 2019 cropping season | 2020 cropping season | ||||
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Richness | Abundance | Diversity | Richness | Abundance | Diversity | |
Present | 4.18a | 12.29b | 0.64a | 3.36b | 8.71b | 0.26b |
Absent | 4.13a | 17.35a | 0.64a | 4.77a | 13.65a | 0.32a |
Msd | 0.32 | 2.50 | 0.03 | 0.46 | 1.88 | 0.02 |
Trapping area | ||||||
Crop center | 4.33a | 16.72a | 0.65a | 4.69a | 12.81a | 0.31a |
Margin vegetation | 3.83b | 4.49b | 0.62a | 2.11b | 5.43b | 0.23b |
Msd | 0.32 | 2.50 | 0.03 | 0.46 | 1.88 | 0.02 |
Means in a column followed by the same letters are not significantly different using Tukey’s HSD test at p ≤0.05.