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PhilRice supervising science research specialist Dong Arida and his team found out in a three-year study that weekly removal of damaged eggplant fruits and shoots, coupled with less insecticide application, produces more fruits without the worms.


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The researchers have successfully integrated the alternative IPM practices in rice-onion cropping systems at the farm level for eight years.


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                    [Title] => Use sex urge to kill onion pests
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Philippine Rice Research Institute researchers have found that at night when cutworm and armyworm moths are actively feeding on the leaves of onion crops, the female moths emit a chemical called sex pheromone that attracts the male insects for mating.  Even at a far distance, the male moths could smell the sex pheromone and out of instinct, would fly immediately to the location of the chemical in search of a mate.


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Less use of pesticides urged

March 8, 2009 - 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines - Onion farmers are urged to stop the wanton spraying of insecticides on their crops to protect predators or friendly insects that help them control the onion leaf miner, scientifically known...

Agriculture

Controlling eggplant fruit and shoot borer

June 25, 2006 - 12:00am

Farmers need not worry much anymore about eggplant fruits with worms inside them by simply following a technique found by researchers of Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) in a project on rice-based vegetable...

Agriculture

Alternative IPM methods for rice-onion crops developed

January 29, 2006 - 12:00am

Alternative integrated pest management [IPM] practices developed by PhilRice [Philippine Rice Research Institute] researchers can very well fit into the current farming practices of onion farmers and reduce pesticide...

Agriculture

Controlling eggplant pests

October 9, 2005 - 12:00am

Housewives normally do not buy eggplant fruits with holes in them, as these have a worm or larvae of the fruit and shoot borer inside. However, researchers of PhilRice [Philippine Rice Research Institute] have found...

Agriculture

Controlling eggplant pests

October 9, 2005 - 12:00am

Housewives normally do not buy eggplant fruits with holes in them, as these have a worm or larvae of the fruit and shoot borer inside. However, researchers of PhilRice [Philippine Rice Research Institute] have found...

Agriculture

Use sex urge to kill onion pests

August 21, 2005 - 12:00am

Onion farmers can capitalize on the sex urge of the moths of two major insect pests of onion — common cutworm and armyworm — to kill them. Philippine Rice Research Institute researchers have found that...

Agriculture