Effects of kaolin clay on flea beetles and other pests and non-target insects on tatsoi
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Kaolin is a natural aluminium silicate clay material of interest for insect pest management. We conducted field and laboratory experiments to assess effects of kaolin (Surround WP ® ) on pest and beneficial insects. In a field experiment with tatsoi greens ( Brassica rapa subsp. narinosa), kaolin applications, particularly at high rate (50 g AI L −1 ) reduced shot hole damage, as well as captures of crucifer flea beetles, striped flea beetles, aphids, and leafhoppers on sticky cards to levels comparable to an insecticide industry standard, while maintaining plant vigour. In the same field experiment, some kaolin treatments reduced captures of carabid beetles on some dates, but parasitic wasp captures on sticky cards were unaffected. In laboratory experiments, kaolin treatments did not cause mortality of two-spotted spider mite, green peach aphid, or diamondback moth larvae, but diamondback moth larvae avoided and consumed less cabbage foliage treated with kaolin. Our results suggest that kaolin can reduce crucifer and striped flea beetle damage on Brassicaceae crops like tatsoi and may provide similar protection against diamondback moth on Brassicaceae crops, while posing low hazard to non-target beneficial insects.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".