Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263 145, Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand, India
*Corresponding author's E-mail: paruldobhal24@gmail.com
Online Published on 11 October, 2022.
Predatory bug was surveyed in selected locations from U.S. Nagar, Nainital, Almora, Pithoragarh, Champawat and Bageshwar districts in Kumaon from March 2017 to February 2018. The bug was present in all the locations on wheat, soybean, maize, pigeonpea, gram, rice, beans and cowpea crops in association with lepidopteran pests. The preferred preys were found to be the larvae of Mythimna separata and Helicoverpa armigera in wheat, Spodoptera litura in soybean and cabbage, Cnaphalocrosis medinalis in rice, Maruca vitrata and H. armigera in pigeonpea, S. litura and M. vitrata in beans, H. armigera in okra and gram and Chilo partellus on maize.
Crop ecosystems, Eocanthecona furcellata, Host range, Predator, Prey
