Indian Journal Of Entomology
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  • Year: 2021
  • Volume: 83
  • Issue: 1

Efficacy of insecticides and biopesticides against pomegranate fruit borer deudorix isocrates

1Department of Entomology, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Neri, Hamirpur177001, Himachal Pradesh, India

*Email: vijaybharti402@gmail.com (corresponding author)

Abstract

Field experiment conducted to evaluate insecticides and biopesticides against the pomegranate fruit borer Deudorix isocrates (F.) revealed that after the fourth spray, infestation of 20% as in untreated control reduced with spinosad (8.19%), followed by flubendiamide (9.17%) and agniastra (9.58%). The avoidable loss in treatments ranged between 70.55 to 73.03%.

Keywords

Deudorix isocrates, Pomegranate, Spinosad, Flubendiamide, Agniastra, Bacillus thuringiensis var