Leafminer control increases summer squash yields
Raj K. Sharma, Cooperative Extension, Imperial County, El Centro
Alfonso Durazo, Cooperative Extension, Imperial County, El Centro
Keith S. Mayberry, Cooperative Extension, Imperial County, El Centro
California Agriculture 34(6):21-22. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v034n06p21.
Raj K. Sharma is Farm Advisor, Entomology, Cooperative Extension, Imperial County, El Centro. Alfonso Durazo, III, is Farm Advisor, Small Farms, Cooperative Extension, Imperial County, El Centro. Keith S. Mayberry is Farm Advisor, Vegetable Crops, Cooperative Extension, Imperial County, El Centro.
Experimental insecticide treatments provided enough leafminer control to increase yields and dollar gains per acre of summer squash-a crop grown predominantly by small farmers.
The authors acknowledge the assistance of Hunter Johnson, Jr., Vegetable Specialist, and Max Clover, Photographer, Cooperative Extension, University of California, Riverside, in providing some of the photographs. This research was supported in part by various donations from the chemical industry.