Low Volume Spray Applications of Technical Malathion to Vegetable Crops

Abstract

An experimental application of technical grade malathion was made by helicopter to a mixed planting of vegetables on the University of Arizona Mesa Experiment Station. Technical malathion at the rate of one pint per acre was not phytotoxic to onions, carrots, lettuce, cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower. This dosage did not satisfactorily control cabbage loopers and beet armyworms.