Thrips palmi

Thrips palmi [37] Reared on treated leaf — dermal uptake from treated leaf Inhibition of adult emergence... 

However, its penetration through the cuticle is low. Other hemipterous pests, such as sweet potato whitefiy, Bemisia tahaci, and the citrus mealybug, Planococ-cus citri, or melon thrips, Thrips palmi, and the termite, Reticulitermes speratus, are also very susceptible to this CNI 2. 

Several field evaluations carried out to date have proved that pyridalyl at rates between 100 and 220 g-a.i. ha" or 10 g-a.i. hi" provides excellent control of lepidopterous pests on vegetables or cotton. In addition, pyridalyl is being developed for control of Liriomyza spp. and Thrips palmi in vegetables and ornamentals. The labeled or proposed crops in Japan or USA are expressed in Table 30.3.6. No crop injuries have been reported to date. 

At a Formal Consultative Meeting in 1997, another controversy erupted— this time involving accusations against the United States. At the meeting, the Cuban government claimed the US had released an aggressive, burrowing and quite voracious insect named Thrips palmi on the island of Cuba. 

Raymond Zilinskas has analyzed the Thrips palmi and other cases at length, and we only need summarize the basic arguments here.i Cuba told the representatives that, due to the exact timing of the US aircraft overflight, its suspicious emissions, the outbreak in West Cuban farms with Thrips palmi, and with no other plausible source of the infestation, that clearly the United States had engaged in a form of BW. As for the US retort that the aircraft in question was... 

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