Evaluation of Different Rates of Ampligo Insecticide against Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda (JE Smith); Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in the Coastal Savannah Agroecological Zone of Ghana

Table 5

The effect of Ampligo treatments on the phytotoxic factors considered during sampling for FAW maize leaf and whorl.

Phytotoxic factors	Ampligo treatments
	0 ml/ha	200 ml/ha	240 ml/ha
Thinning	0.1 ± 0.04	0.004 ± 0.004	0.00 ± 0.00
Chlorosis	0.4 ± 0.05	0.05 ± 0.018	0.04 ± 0.01
Necrosis	0.5 ± 0.06	0.1 ± 0.03	0.1 ± 0.03
Wilting	0.3 ± 0.05	0.02 ± 0.01	0.00 ± 0.00
Rolling	0.2 ± 0.04	0.01 ± 0.007	0.005 ± 0.005
Curling	0.4 ± 0.05	0.03 ± 0.01	0.01 ± 0.008
Stunting	0.6 ± 0.07	0.1 ± 0.03	0.06 ± 0.02

Phytotoxicity scale: 0.0–1.0 = low phytotoxicity; 1.0–2.0 = medium phytotoxicity; 2.0–3.0 = high phytotoxicity; scale modified from EPPO (2014).