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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Impact of Foliar Treatments on Aulacaspis
tubercularis Control and Mango Yield
1
Department of Scale Insects and Mealybugs Research, Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research
Center, 12619 Giza, Egypt
2
Guangxi Key Laboratory for Agro-Environment and Agro-Product Safety, National Demonstration Center for
Experimental Plant Science Education, Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Guangxi University,
Nanning 530004, P. R. China
3
State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources, Guangxi Key Laboratory for
Agro-Environment and Agro-Product Safety, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Plant Science Education,
Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, Guangxi, China
Submission date: 2024-07-20
Final revision date: 2024-08-27
Acceptance date: 2024-09-21
Online publication date: 2024-12-30
Publication date: 2025-11-04
Corresponding author
Moustafa Mohamed Sabry Bakry
Scale Insects and Mealybugs Research Department, Plant Protection Research Institute, A.R.C, Dokii, Giza, Egypt., ESNA, LUXOR, Egypt
Scale Insects and Mealybugs Research Department, Plant Protection Research Institute, A.R.C, Dokii, Giza, Egypt., ESNA, LUXOR, Egypt
Xiaoyun Wang
Guangxi Key Laboratory for Agro-Environment and Agro-Product Safety, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Plant Science Education, Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, P. R. China
Guangxi Key Laboratory for Agro-Environment and Agro-Product Safety, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Plant Science Education, Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, P. R. China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2025;34(6):7533-7550
KEYWORDS
TOPICS
ABSTRACT
Aulacaspis tubercularis (Newstead) (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) is one of the most important pests
of mango trees. Therefore, the first objective of the work is to field-evaluate some chemical and nonchemical
control agents against the white-scale insect on Golek mango trees. The second goal is to
determine the effectiveness of eight foliar treatments applied with and without the addition of potassium
silicate and zinc sulfate in improving the productivity and quality of mango fruits. According to the
findings, A. tubercularis adult females were less susceptible to the evaluated treatments than the nymphs.
Additionally, Actellic treatment proved to be the most successful in controlling A. tubercularis nymphs
and adult females on mango leaves. Even though orange oil treatment was the least dangerous treatment
for this pest, a number of evaluations are necessary to determine how effective these treatments are
for beneficial insects. Also, the highest increase in the fruits' physical characteristics, yield, and fruit
quality compared to untreated trees was recorded in trees treated with pirimiphos-methyl in addition to
a mixture of potassium silicate at 5 ml/liter of water and zinc sulfate at 5 g/liter of water. The lowest of
them was seen in trees treated with orange oil only.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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