Effects of Mulch Type, Plant Cultivar, and Insecticide Use on Sweet Potato Whitefly Population in Chili Pepper

Table 1

Mean numbers of whitefly eggs, nymphs, and adults for mulch type treatments, 2018.

Mulch	Mean numbers of whiteflies (±SEM)
	Eggs per 1 cm^2 leaf	Nymphs per 1 cm^2 leaf	Adults per plant
Reflective silver mulch	3.47 ± 0.50 a	3.17 ± 0.27 a	2.24 ± 0.12 a
Rice straw mulch	23.15 ± 2.41 c	16.82 ± 1.46 b	21.01 ± 1.68 c
Bare ground	17.19 ± 1.38 b	16.62 ± 1.67 c	12.20 ± 0.42 b

Means in a column followed by different letters are significantly different from each other (), according to Tukey’s post hoc test.