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Repellency of Plant Extracts against the Legume Flower Thrips Megalurothrips sjostedti (Thysanoptera: Thripidae)
- Andnet Abtew,
- Sevgan Subramanian,
- Xavier Cheseto,
- Serge Kreiter,
- Giovanna Tropea Garzia and
- Thibaud Martin
Megalurothrips sjostedti Trybom is an important pest of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.) in Africa. To propose an alternative to chemical control, the repellency of 24 plant extracts was evaluated against adult female thrips of M. sjostedti in the labor...

