Effect of kaolin on the striped cucumber beetle («Acalymma vittatum») and cucumber growth and development
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Striped cucumber beetle (SCB) is the main pest of cucurbits in northeastern America. This project examined the efficacy of kaolin clay in controlling SCB (Acalymma vittatum; Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in cucumbers. Field experiments compared kaolin (Surround WP), insecticide (carbaryl; Sevin XLR) and untreated controls. In 2005, mean number of beetles was lowest in the kaolin treatment. Bacterial wilt (Erwinia tracheiphila) was greater in the controls and kaolin plants had significantly higher marketable yields than the two other treatments. In 2006, SCB numbers in kaolin were similar to the other treatments. Total marketable yield was significantly higher in the insecticide than the other treatments. Single and multiple applications of kaolin had negative short term effects on gas exchange and only negligible effects on greenhouse grown plants. In behavior experiments, kaolin reduced settling and feeding damage by SCB on treated plants. Kaolin shows potential as an alternative to insecticide especially to protect seedlings and young plants.
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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".