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

Table 5

Influence of mulch and cultivar treatments on the average numbers of whitefly eggs, nymphs, and adults across insecticide treatments, 2019.

Mulch	Cultivar	Mean numbers of whiteflies (±SEM)
		Eggs per 1 cm^2 leaf	Nymphs per 1 cm^2 leaf	Adults per plant
Reflective mulch	Bhaskara	2.40 ± 0.45 a	1.49 ± 0.17 a	0.91 ± 0.09 a
Reflective mulch	Bara	4.87 ± 0.96 b	3.33 ± 0.74 b	1.49 ± 0.19 b
Rice straw mulch	Bhaskara	5.59 ± 0.64 b	2.67 ± 0.51 b	1.05 ± 0.09 a
Rice straw mulch	Bara	13.86 ± 1.32 c	11.55 ± 1.75 c	8.91 ± 0.37 d
Bare ground	Bhaskara	7.31 ± 0.87 b	2.62 ± 0.39 b	1.32 ± 0.19 b
Bare ground	Bara	13.46 ± 1.89 c	8.04 ± 0.96 c	5.33 ± 0.27 c

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