Indian Journal of Entomology
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  • Year: 2026
  • Volume: 88
  • Issue: 1

Efficacy of Colour Sticky Traps for Monitoring of Sucking Pests of Chilli

  • Author:
  • Neha Girish Matra1,*, S D Bantewad2, A S Khandare1, Saif Ali Khan3
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 191 to 192

1Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture

2College of Agriculture, Ambajogai, Beed431517, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani 431402, Maharashtra, India

3Department of Entomology, Rajasthan Agricultural Research Institute, Sri Karan Narendra Agriculture University, Durgapura, Jaipur303329, Rajasthan, India

*Email: nehamatra1@gmail.com (corresponding author):

Online published on 26 February, 2026.

Abstract

An experiment was conducted at the experimental farm of Department of Entomology, VNMKV, Parbhani, during kharif 2022-23 to evaluate the efficacy of coloured sticky traps on sucking pests on chilli. Significantly highest numbers of aphids and whiteflies with (101.64 aphids/ trap/ week and 97.73 whiteflies/ trap/ week), were trapped on yellow colored trap placed along the crop canopy. Significantly highest numbers of leafhooper (97.13 leaf hoppers/ trap/ week) were trapped on green-coloured sticky traps. Highest number of thrips (99.29 thrips/ trap/ week) were trapped on blue colored sticky trap.

Keywords

Efficacy, Colour sticky traps, Sucking pests, Kharif, Crop canopy, Chilli, Thrips, Whitefly, Aphids, Yellow, Green, Blue