Mole Cricket Control on Tomato and Pepper, 1978

Tomato and pepper plants were set Sep 29, 1.5 ft apart on 32-in. wide by 8-in. high plastic mulched beds of Myakka fine sand. Phytotoxicity plots consisted of 15 tomato and 15 pepper plants replicated 3 times in a split plot design with crop as subplots and insecticide as main plots. Efficacy plots consisted of sand-filled troughs (2 ft long x 6 in. x 6 in.) with screened bottoms buried between crops. Seven field collected mole crickets were placed in each trough and a screen was stapled to the top after the granules were applied to the entire bed by hand. Beds were covered with the mulch and plants were set. Seven days later, the number of living mole crickets was determined for each plot. Percent control was calculated using Abbott’s formula and values were transformed arcsin prior to analysis.