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Biological and chemical control of besert locust and grasshoppers in Egypt /

Ahmed Kamel Hassan Hosny

Biological and chemical control of besert locust and grasshoppers in Egypt / المكافحة البيولوجية و الكيماوية للجراد الصحراوى و النطاطات فى مصر Ahmed Kamel Hassan Hosny ; Supervised Monir Mohamed M. Elhusseini , Essam Abdelmageed Agamy , Gamal Zaki Taha - Cairo : Ahmed Kamel Hassan Hosny , 2012 - 89 P. : photographs ; 25cm

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Agriculture - Department of Economic Entomology and Pesticides

This study was conducted to evaluate the performance of spinosad (Tracer 24SC) and its efficacy on acridid pests (desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria and several species of grasshoppers) in comparison with both conventional pesticides, chloropyrifos and malathion in the laboratory on one side and with chloropyrifos under the field conditions on the other side



Locust Metarhizium anisopliae Spinosad