Evaluation of certain acaricides and insecticides for effectiveness, residues, and
      influence on crop flavor

Linsley, E

Evaluation of certain acaricides and insecticides for effectiveness, residues, and influence on crop flavor

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E. Gorton Linsley

Author Affiliations

Mr. Linsley was Professor of Entomology and Entomologist in the Experiment Station, Berkeley.

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Hilgardia 26(1):1-106. DOI:10.3733/hilg.v26n01p001. August 1956.

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Abstract

The present series of reports includes pesticidal, flavor, and chemical or bioassay residue studies of certain acaricides applied to pears, apples, and peaches and of insecticides applied to soils in which several root crops were grown. The chemical names and formulas of the acaricides may be found in table 1, page 47; those of the insecticides in table 1, page 87. The technical results reported in this series of studies do not constitute pest-control recommendations. Public law No. 518, the so-called Miller Amendment to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938, applies to these compounds when used on these fruit and vegetable crops. Specific recommendations for pest-control use are issued by the Agricultural Extension Service.

Pesticidal properties were studied in the field by H. F. Madsen and A. D. Borden of the Department of Entomology and Parasitology at Berkeley, and by F. M. Summers, W. H. lange, Jr., and E. C. Carlson of the Department of Entomology and Parasitology at Davis. Flavor evaluations were made by E. Hinreiner and M. Simone of the Department of Food Technology at Davis. Residue analyses were provided by W. M. Hoskins, W. R. Erwin, and R. P. Miskus of the Department of Entomology and Parasitology at Berkeley. It will be noted that residue analyses were made on certain truck crops, after foliage or soil application of insecticides, that are not discussed in the other studies.

These investigations show that several acaricides, when used in accordance with described procedures, will give satisfactory control of the tetranychid mites affecting apples, pears, peaches, and almonds in California. Most of these materials have performed well without giving rise to serious residues or disagreeable alterations of flavor in the canned fruits.

Several soil insecticides applied at different rates as general broadcast treatments demonstrated initial and residual effects on wireworms damaging sweet potatoes, white potatoes, and carrots. A laboratory bioassay technique utilizing limonius conus (leConte) indicated considerable variation in the speed of action of the insecticides used, and in their residual nature in soils of different textural classes. Field-performance trials of certain insecticides at specified rates gave excellent protection against wireworms for white potatoes and sweet potatoes.

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