Department of Entomology and Agricultural Zoology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221 005 (U.P.), India
Online published on 10 October, 2018.
The results revealed that the occurrence of coccinellid population begins from January 28, 2018 with 0.030 coccinellids population/plant was recorded. The coccinellid population reached to its peak recording 1.226/plant. Thereafter, a decrease in coccinellids population was recorded as low as 0.326/plant during first week of March. The correlation revealed that temperature had a positive correlation with coccinellid population, whereas negative correlation was observed with relative humidity at 0.05% level.
Abiotic factors, Brassica campestris, Brassica juncea, Coccinellid
