Effect of Lufox, insect growth regulator, on grape berry moth, Lobesia botrana Den. & Schiff (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)

The grape berry moth, Lobesia botrana Den & Schiff (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), is a major pest ofvineyards in the world and also in Iran. Currently the most effective way in controlling of this pest, is usingchemical insecticides. Lufox is being an insect growth regulator and is a mixture of Lufenuron andFenoxicarb, that both are from insect growth regulator pesticides. In this study the effect of Lufox has beencompared with Phosalone and that application of insecticides has been done against the three pestgenerations. Different factors including: percentage of infected bunches, and percentage of infected berries togrape berry moth recorded. The results analysis showed significant differences between the treatments. Theaverage number damaged grape berries are each bunch were 0.91 in Lufox treatments, whereas the averageof the damaged grape berries in each bunch in the treatment of Phosalone and control were 2.74 and 10.45,respectively. According to the obtained results, Lufox effect on controlling of grape berry moth is better thanPhosalone

کلیدواژه ها:

Lobesia botrana ، Lufox ، Phosalone ، Insect growth regulator ، Pheromone traps