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Clove Oil Efficacy on the Red Spider Mite, Oligonychus coffeae Nietner (Acari: Tetranychidae) Infesting Tea Plants

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Certain concentrations of clove oil have been proved effective against adult mites and rate of deposition of eggs by mites on treated leaf surfaces as well as the viability rate of eggs decreased significantly.
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The tea red spider mite, Oligonychus coffeae Nietner (Tetranychidae), is an economically important pest of agricultural and ornamental crops and considered one of the major pests of tea plants in North-east India. In view of increasing resistance recorded in insect and mite pests against pesticides, a study was conducted to determine the acaricidal, antiovipositional, repellent and ovicidal activities of clove oil (an essential oil from the clove plant, Syzygium aromaticum L. Merr. & Perry: Myrtaceae) against tea-red-spider-mite. Mortality of O. coffeae varied with the concentrations and the duration of exposure time of the mites after application of oil. Rate of deposition of eggs by mites on treated leaf surfaces as well as the viability rate of eggs decreased significantly. In addition, certain concentrations of clove oil have been proved effective against adult mites.

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