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

Table 3

Mean numbers of whitefly eggs, nymphs, and adults for insecticide application frequency treatments, 2018.

Insecticide application	Mean numbers of whiteflies (±SEM)
	Eggs per 1 cm^2 leaf	Nymphs per 1 cm^2 leaf	Adults per plant
Twice per week	2.55 ± 0.39 a	2.61 ± 0.29 a	2.17 ± 0.33 a
Once per week	2.96 ± 0.51 a	2.87 ± 0.46 a	2.16 ± 0.32 a
Once per two weeks	6.78 ± 0.25 b	5.49 ± 0.25 b	3.41 ± 0.94 a
Control	14.54 ± 3.91 c	10.34 ± 2.40 c	12.61 ± 1.24 b

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