Sweet potato whitefly Bemisia tabaci is a serious pest of various economically important crops. For the control of B. tabaci in an environment-friendly way, we demonstrated the effect of azadirachtin, which is an active conpound of neem oil as an botanical insecticide, on the development of B. tabaci by using an assay of single tomato leaf. Egg hatch rates were 53.6, 50.3% at 5 and 10 ppm, respectively. Adult eclosion rates were 30.0, 22.9% at these doses. We determined the whitefly control efficacies of two application methods of neem-based products by comparing between a direct spray of liquid-type into leaves and a soil treatment of pellet-type. Soil treatment of neem was greatly inhibited adult colonization by 75%. Those plants also inhibited the rates of oviposition and larval development. However, single treatment of foliar spray of neem (5-10 ppm) did not significantly inhibit the initial colonization of adult whiteflies. Furthermore, adult colonization was gradually increased regardless of neem spray.

• Ohnmar Lynn(College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Department of Entomology, Agricultural University)
• Woo-Geun Song(College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Kyungpook National University)
• Han-Eul Seo(College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Kyungpook National University)
• Jang-Eok Kim(College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Kyungpook National University)
• Kyeong-Yeoll Lee(College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Kyungpook National University)