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## Abstract **BACKGROUND:** __Bradysia ocellaris__ (Comstock) is one of the major pests of cultivated mushrooms, __Agaricus bisporus__ (Lange) Imbach. The feeding of sciarid fly larvae causes damage to the cultivation substrates, compost and casing. A comparative study of insecticidal treatments incorporated into compost and casing against __B. ocellaris__ was conducted during 2003–2004. Treatments with an organophosphate, diazinon, a pyrazole, fipronil, and an insect growth regulator (IGR), triflumuron, were incorporated into casing. Another IGR, cyromazine, was incorporated into compost. Insecticidal incorporation into compost and casing has been associated with reductions in mushroom yield. Therefore, the effect of these insecticidal treatments on the overall yield was evaluated. **RESULTS:** A combined treatment, incorporation of cyromazine at 10 mg kg^−1^ into compost and of triflumuron at 20 mg kg^−1^ into casing, provided 100% control against __B. ocellaris__. There was no apparent reduction in yield as a result of incorporation of the tested chemicals into either compost or casing. **CONCLUSION:** The results obtained from this study suggest that incorporation of insecticid
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- Author
- Afsheen Shamshad; Alan D Clift; Sarah Mansfield
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1526-498X)
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)