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Evaluation of the effect of integrated control of tomato leafminer Tuta absoluta with sex pheromone and insecticides.

An experiment was conducted toward the development of integrated control program for the tomato leafminer Tuta absoluta in the summer growing season of 2012 at Manwat village, Giza governorate. An integrated pest management (IPM) program which consisted of mass-trapping T. absoluta males in red plastic basin traps at a density of 8 traps / feddan, biweekly application of voliam flexi 40 % WG (20 % Thiamethoxam+ 20 % chlorantaniliprole) and Dan top 50 % WG (Clothianidin) in sequence during vegetative stage and weekly application of Dipel DF 6.4 % W G(Bacillus thuringiensis) during fruiting stage was compared with mass trapping only and farmers practice in which farmers sprayed several insecticides at their own discretion. The results showed that mean percent fruit damage was lower in the field treated with pheromone baited water traps only (44.33 %) than that in the farmers field (41.93 %), both being significantly higher than that in the field treated with such traps in combination with insecticide application. Therefore T. absoluta sex pheromone appears to be a valuable component in the integrated management of T. absoluta. (Taha, A. M.; A. F. E. Afsah and Fargalla, F. H. Evaluation of the effect of integrated control of tomato leafminer Tuta absoluta with sex pheromone and insecticides. Nat Sci 2013;11(7):26-29). (ISSN: 1545-0740). http://www.sciencepub.net/nature. 5