Department of Agricultural Entomology, College of Agriculture, Vellayani, Kerala Agricultural University, Thiruvananthapuram-695 522, India
*E-mail: jnayanathara@gmail.com
Online published on 1 July, 2022.
The lepidopteran pest complex sheltering in the mango panicle is a rising threat to production and productivity. The caterpillar complex causing menace to the reproductive phase of the crop is collected, reared and documented for further studies. The samples of infested panicle were collected from four random districts of Kerala and 17 specimens belonging to 7 families of Geometridae, Lycaenidae, Torticidae, Nolidae, Noctuidae, Erebidae and Crambidae were recorded.
Lepidoptera, Pest, Mango, Inflorescence
