title: Cyromazine seed treatments to control onion maggot, Delia antiqua, on green onions.
abstract: Cyromazine seed treatments were evaluated for onion maggot control in green onion crops. The more tolerant to organophosphates of two populations of onion maggots was chosen for further research, based on the results of adult assays in a Potter spray tower. In the laboratory, first-instar mortality was compared between film-coated seed treatment and soil drench treatment. The LC50 for the film-coated seed treatment was approximately one fourth that of the soil drench treatment. In choice assays, no significant difference was observed between the number of eggs deposited on seedlings grown from film-coated seeds with cyromazine and film-coated seeds without cyromazine. Field studies demonstrated that all rates of cyromazine seed treatment resulted in protection of onion plants from onion maggot damage. Green onions may not require as high a rate of cyromazine for control of onion maggots as the rate established for use in dry onions for two reasons: the seeding rate is much higher for green onions resulting in more AI/ha for a given amount of AI/kg of seed, and a given percentage of stand loss is more difficult to detect in green onions than in dry onions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Entomology, The Ohio State University, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Wooster, OH 44691, USA.
authors.forename: Erol
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Yildirim
authors.forename: Casey W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Hoy
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004175:Diptera; D007300:Insect Control / Q000379:methods*; D007306:Insecticides / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D019697:Onions; D012639:Seeds; D014227:Triazines / Q000008:administration & dosage*
chemical_list: D007306:Insecticides; D014227:Triazines; C028704:cyromazine