International Journal of Farm Sciences

Different stages of insects were collected from farmers’ fields during field visits and reared in the laboratory to know the natural parasitisation. Natural enemies viz Apanteles taragamae Viereck as a gregarious larval parasitoid of pumpkin leaf caterpillar, Diaphania indica (Saunders), Metopius browni Ashmead from pupa of Spodoptera litura (Fabricius), Apanteles stantoni Ashmead as a larval parasitoid of Tabarnaemontana crassa leaf webber, Parotis vertumnalis Guenee, Apanteles phycodis Viereck as larval parasitoid of ficus leaf webber, Phycodes radiata (Ochsenheimer), Telenomus sp as an egg nymphal parasitoid of bug, Coptosoma cribraria (Fabricius), Goniozus sp from sapota fruit borer, Anarsia achrasella (Latreille), Apanteles sp from amaranthus caterpillar, Hymenia recurvalis (Fabricius), Brachymeria sp a larval parasitoid of cabbage leaf webber, Crocidolomia binotalis (Zeller), Cotesia sp as a larval parasitoid of leaf webber, Syngamia abruptalis Walker were recorded.