Seasonal Abundance and Suppression of Fruit-Piercing Moth Eudocima phalonia (L.) in a Citrus Orchard in Sarawak

Table 2

Influence of 𝑛C24 Horticultural Mineral Oils (HMOs) Deposits and Synthetic Pesticide on Damage by Eudocima fullonia on Honey Mandarin during December 2008 and March 2009.

Treatment	Mean percentage of fruit damage (%)
	Date of fruit sampling
	26/12/08	31/12/08	14/3/09
HMOs	15.7±3.4^a	5.7±3.1^a	3.9±2.6^a
Dimethoate	16.7±5.2^a	10.2±3.5^a	8.0±3.1^a
Control	18.7±4.8^a	29.6±6.7^b	19.2±5.1^b

Value with the same within a column are not significantly different at 𝑃=0.05 by Fisher’s LSD Test.