Economical importance of the increasing number of chemical sprays for the control of pomegranate fruit worm Ectomyelois ceratoniae Zeller at Mikdadiah / Dialah

Abstract

This study was carried out at one of pomegranate Orchards at Mikdadiah / Dialah during 2001& 2002 to know the economic importance of the increasing number of chemical sprays to control pomegranate fruit worm Ectomyelois ceratoniae . Results indicated that increasing the number of sprays for more than four times was not economical , as there was no significant differences between the percentage of infected fruits and the number of sprays from 4-8 treatments .