{"id":11374,"date":"2026-06-30T22:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=11374"},"modified":"2026-06-30T22:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:01:20","slug":"comparison-of-the-efficacy-of-some-chemical-pesticides-with-potassium-soap-in-controlling-the-adults-of-fig-wax-scale-ceroplastes-rusci-l-homoptera-coccidae-in-rural-damascus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=11374","title":{"rendered":"Comparison of the efficacy of some chemical pesticides with potassium soap in controlling the adults of fig wax scale Ceroplastes rusci L. (Homoptera: Coccidae) in Rural Damascus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mohammad Al-Allan, Wissam Mal1<\/sup>, Walid Al-Housa1<\/sup>, Magda Mofleh2*<\/sup> and Hanan Habbak2<\/sup> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1 General Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research, Research Administration of Plant protection, Damascus, Syria.<\/span>
\n2 General Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research, Lattakia Research Center, Syria.<\/span>
\n(*Corresponding author: Magda Mofleh: magda.mofleh@yahoo.com<\/a>.).<\/span><\/p>\n

Received: 24\/ 10\/ 2025\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Accepted: 12\/ 1\/ 2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Abstract<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The study was conducted at the Betima Research Station of the Agricultural Scientific Research Center in rural Damascus, Syria, on fig trees during the 2023-2024 growing season. Its aim was to compare the effectiveness of several pesticides in controlling the fig wax scale insect. Ceroplastes rusci<\/em> L The experiment included five treatments: control, spraying with chemical pesticides: Deltamethrin, Chloropyrifos, Paydur and a locally pesticide is potassium soap. The results showed a decrease in the average number of fig wax insects one day after spraying, recording 90.6 \u00b1 18.4 ,84.1 \u00b1 19.6, 16.6 \u00b1 7.3, 9.3 \u00b1 5.1 insects\/leaf respectively, compared to the number of insects in the control, which amounted to 163 \u00b1 19.5 insects\/leaf. The effect of the pesticides persisted two days after spraying in all treatments, while the insects resumed their activity a week after spraying, with variations between treatments. The effect of both potassium soap and Paydur reduced insect populations, with values of (11.7 \u00b1 6.1 , 30.4 \u00b1 10.4 insects\/leaf) respectively, while the numbers increased for both Deltamethrin and Chloropyrifos recorded 206.6 \u00b1 25.2 and 179.6 \u00b1 25.5 insects\/leaf respectively, and the most effective pesticide one day after spraying was potassium soap with an efficiency of 93%, followed by Paydur 86% and the pesticides Deltamethrin and Chloropyrifos (58% and 48%, respectively) showed significant differences between treatments. The pesticide effect persisted for one week after spraying with Potassium soap, followed by Paydur With an effectiveness of (94, 82%) respectively, while the effectiveness of the pesticides Deltamethrin and Chloropyrifos decreased to 32, 21% respectively, with significant differences between the treatments.<\/span><\/p>\n

Keywords:<\/strong> Ceroplastes rusci<\/em> L., Potassium soap, pesticides, effectiveness, Rural Damascus.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Full paper in Arabic: PDF<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mohammad Al-Allan, Wissam Mal1, Walid Al-Housa1, Magda Mofleh2* and Hanan Habbak2 1 General Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research, Research Administration of Plant protection, Damascus, Syria. 2 General Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research, Lattakia Research Center, Syria. (*Corresponding author: Magda Mofleh: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sjar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11376,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11374\/revisions\/11376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}