Pest Management in Horticultural Ecosystems
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 26
  • Issue: 2

Monitoring tea mosquito bug, Helopeltis Antonii signoret (homoptera: miridae) using sticky traps on drumstick, Moringa Oleifera lam.

  • Author:
  • B.R. Jayanthi Mala1,*, P.D. Kamala Jayanthi1, T. Nagaraja2, P.S. Bhat1
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 279 to 281

1Division of Crop Protection, ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Hesaraghatta Lake P.O., Bengaluru-560089, India

2Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Kandali, Hassan, UAS (Bengaluru), Karnataka, India

*E-mail: entjaya@gmail.com

Online published on 17 August, 2021.

Abstract

Tea mosquito bug, Helopeltis antonii Sign. is an emerging pest of drumstick, Moringa oleifera Lam. Both nymphs and adults cause severe damage (74–100%). Experiments were conducted to monitor tea mosquito bug population using colour sticky traps. Yellow colour sticky traps were found to attract significantly higher number of adult H. antonii (7± 2.26; P<0.001) compared to the blue traps (2.37± 0.75).

Keywords

Tea mosquito bug, Helopeltis antonii, Drumstick, Moringa oleifera, Sticky traps