Hi everybody , I hope all is well.
I've got a question
Could you suggest me some suitable pesticides for insect larvae in spirulina farm?
Thanks
Try neemseed kernal extract 5percent.powder 50gram of neem seed in one liter of water and soake it overnight fiter next day and use it.
Dear Mohammad Mozafari Nia go through the attached file, it may be helpful.
Article Spirulina Cultivation: A Review
This is interesting. Neem extract has low mammalian toxicity, so it might be a good candidate, provided it does not affect the quality of the final product, such as taste. Mandarin®/Esfenvalerate looks at first hand too toxic for this purpose. Would it be possible to process the algae with the larvae included? Do you know the insect?
I suppose these are the quality standards? If so it would be worthwhile to do a test on the number of fragments the larvae produce. I would think that could be fairly little (for most insect larvae that is). What do they look like? If they have a soft epidermis you might be successful.
You also see that there is a zero allowance for pesticides, including neem (which is strange because that is impossible to demonstrate: they should indicate a realistic limit of detection/quantification; 0 or 'neg'. is never really zero). How many days would you have between the treatment and harvesting?
@ James W Everts
yes this table is a safety guideline for spirulina
actually insects and they larva eat our spirulina and that's a problem
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