Research Article

Age Stage Two-Sex Life Table Reveals Sublethal Effects of Some Herbal and Chemical Insecticides on Adults of Bemisia tabaci (Hem.: Aleyrodidae)

Table 3

Results of -test analyses showing differences between the age-specific female life table and the age-stage two-sex life table in estimation of life table parameters of B. tabaci.

Treatments The intrinsic rate of increase (r) The finite rate of increase (λ) The net reproductive rate ( ) The mean generation time (T)

Control0.6610.4490.6550.4570.4920.7070.7740.293
Pymetrozin0.6700.4340.6330.4860.0482.1260.3171.040
Neemarin0.773−0.2930.807−0.2490.353−0.9580.7980.262
T. polium 0.6790.4250.2661.1620.0113.0190.9050.122
C. procera 0.556−0.6020.590−0.5500.016−2.7000.9190.103
Th. vulgaris 0.6430.4750.6040.5330.0083.1830.4910.710
F. parviflora 0.5260.6520.4990.6960.1241.6440.9360.082