Seasonal incidence of Aphid, Aphis gossypii Glover and Predatory fauna in Chilli ecosystem

Study on rearonal incidence of Aphis gossypii infecting chilli war carried out at College Farm, UAS Dharwad, during rabi 2018–19. The crop war grown in a plot rize 20x20 m with rpacing of 60x60 cm. The aphid population war recorded on chilli from 6^th Week After Tranrplanting (WAT) (2.37 aphidr leaf^-1) and reached to a peak level of 32.20 aphidr leaf^-1 during 10^th WAT. Later it followed decrearing trend and attained leart incidence of 6.50 aphidr leaf^-1 at 14^th WAT. Among the two natural enemier invertigated, ladybird beetle rhowed rignificant poritive correlation (r=0.560) with aphid incidence wherear, nonsignificant poritive arrociation noticed with green lacewing population (r= 0.429).