Table 1.
Target pests, crops and treatments for glasshouse pest trials conducted between 2012 and 2014. Experimental treatments (i.e., products) are coded for confidentiality, though a distinction is made between experimental conventional chemical pesticides (codes starting with “C”) and biopesticides: B = botanical; M = microbial; P = physically-acting. Control treatments were always water-only and industry standards are denoted first by trade name, then by the primary active ingredient.
| YEAR | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CROP | Tomato | Tomato | Pepper | Pepper | |
| PEST | T. vaporariorum | T. urticae | M. persicae | F. occidentalis | A. solani |
| PRODUCTS TESTED | Control | Control | Control | Control | Control |
| Chess WG 3 (pymetrozine) | Borneo 1 (etoxazole) | Pyrethrum 5EC (pyrethrin) | Calypso 2 (thiacloprid) | Chess WG 3 (pymetrozine) | |
| B-130 | P-091 | B-130 | C-200 | B-062 | |
| B-062 | B-062 | B-062 | B-062 | B-130 | |
| B-001 | M-051 | M-051 | B-130 | M-051 | |
| C-054 | C-131 | - | M-209 | P-208 | |
| C-106 | M-092 | - | - | - | |
| APPLICATION * | Wk(3)** | Wk(2) | Wk(3) | Wk(4) | Wk(4) |
| REPLICATION | n = 6 | n = 6 | n = 6 | n = 6 | n = 6 |
| SUB-UNIT | 6 plants (18 leaves)/plot | 6 plants (6 leaves)/plot | 6 (whole) plants/plot | 12 flowers (6 plants)/plot | 6 (whole) plants/plot |
* Wk = Weekly application, with number of applications in parenthesis. NB: Standards (and other treatments where labels existed) were applied according to commercial practice in the UK, where the maximum number of applications specified and used is provided in superscript. ** Except P-001 which was applied 4 times at 4–5 day intervals.