Materials were applied to individual 4-wk-old chrysanthemum plants, cvs. Hurricane, with a 1-gal B&G sprayer at 60 psi 27 Aug. Five fifth-stage larvae were immediately placed on each plant and confined with an inverted, ventilated 1-qt plastic container. Mortality was assessed after 48 h and each surviving larva was placed individually on untreated commercial beet armyworm diet. Mortality was assessed every 48 h thereafter until all surviving larvae had pupated. To correct for differences in

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... aping larvae between treatments, the data were expressed as percent mortality for each ceplicate. Arcsin square root transformations were performed on the data prior to ANOVA.