20.500.12556/RUL-167490 Cabbage pest control with local inert dusts do diatomaceous earth and wood ash have the highest potential? Cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. alba) production in Europe faces challenges from insecticide resistance and environmental concerns. Inert dusts offer a promising alternative, but their field efficacy remains underexplored. Over two growing seasons, we conducted a three-block field investigation with seven treatments (zeolite, quartz sand, diatomaceous earth, wood ash, Ailanthus altissima dust, a positive control [Spinosad] and a negative control [untreated plants]) on a cabbage field. In the first, dry season, we found that diatomaceous earth and wood ash were most effective, reducing damage indices for Eurydema spp., flea beetles and lepidopteran larvae. A. altissima dust showed the best results against onion thrips. Diatomaceous earth also achieved the highest net and gross yield per cabbage head in the first growing season, significantly outperforming untreated control. The rainy, second growing season, reduced the efficacy of all inert dusts, with damage indices rising to 4 for all pest groups and net yields decreasing to ≈700 g per cabbage head. Although the positive control yielded higher, it still fell short of ideal levels. We found that diatomaceous earth and wood ash consistently outperformed other inert dust and the untreated control, with A. altissima dust being most effective against onion thrips. alternative pest control cabbage yield environmental sustainability integrated pest management IPM locally sourced inert materials alternativno zatiranje škodljivcev alternativne metode zelje okoljska trajnost integrirano zatiranje škodljivcev inertni materiali lokalnega izvora diatomejska zemlja lesni prahovi varstvo rastlin true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2025-02-24 14:35:38 2025-02-24 14:35:47 2025-02-25 04:00:05 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 22 str. no. 1, art. 2466448 Vol. 75 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 632.937 0906-4710 10.1080/09064710.2025.2466448 227143171 Cabbage_pest_control_with_local_inert_dusts__do_diatomaceous_earth_and_wood_ash_have_the_highest_potential_.pdf Cabbage_pest_control_with_local_inert_dusts__do_diatomaceous_earth_and_wood_ash_have_the_highest_potential_.pdf 1 8DC70F24910338520A683F528870E983 ea962c377e657aede9fd6b463757b48da5b9080b32e3a839ffa26f69eeb5b208 c4eebd16-f2b3-11ef-b232-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=199998 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09064710.2025.2466448 1 57a0c6f7-f2b3-11ef-b232-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=199993 Biotehniška fakulteta 0 0 0