1Department of Entomology, S V Agricultural College, Tirupati, 517502, ANGRAU, Andhra Pradesh, India
2Department of Entomology, Agricultural Research Station, Anantapur, 515701, Andhra Pradesh, India
3Department of Statistics and Computer Applications, S V Agricultural College, Tirupati, 517502, ANGRAU, Andhra Pradesh, India
*Email: keerthananov896@gmail.com (corresponding author): ORCID ID 0009-0001-6344-9986
Online published on 4 April, 2025.
An experiment was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of ten insecticides against castor shoot and capsule borer Conogethes punctiferalis. Pooled efficacies of treatments revealed that combination treatment of chlorantraniliprole 18.5SC + azadirachtin 1EC @ 0.3 ml l-1 + 1 ml l-1 was recorded as the most effective treatment which exhibited highest efficacy against C. punctiferalis (77.26% reduction over control) followed by chlorantraniliprole 18.5SC @ 0.3 ml l-1 which recorded 73.46% reduction over control. The highest yield was obtained with chlorantraniliprole 18.5SC (0.0055%) + azadirachtin 1EC (0.01%) @ 0.3 ml l-1 + 1 ml l-1 (2369 kg ha-1).
Efficacy, Castor, Castor shoot and capsule borer, Conogethes punctiferalis, Combination, Chlorantraniliprole 18.5SC, Azadirachtin 1EC, Reduction over control, Capsule yield
