Pest Management in Horticultural Ecosystems

Table of Contents

• REVIEW ARTICLE

  Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) as a component of area-wide integrated management of fruit flies: Status and scope

  • Author: P. V. Rami Reddy, M. A. Rashmi

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  Molecular diversity of Oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis Hendel (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Karnataka

  • Author: M.A. Rashmi, Abraham Verghese, P.D. Kamala Jayanthi, A.K. Chakravarthy, Arathi Kirubha, Subhash B. Kandakoor

• Computational reverse chemical ecology: Prospecting semiochemicals for pest management using in silico approach in Plutella xylostella Linn.

  • Author: P. D. Kamala Jayanthi, Vivek Kempraj, Ravindra Aurade

• Olfactometer studies on preference of Rhynocoris marginatus Fabricius to three lepidopteran preys

  • Author: K. Pravalika, T. Umamaheswari, Chitra Shanker

• Population dynamics and natural enemies of Erionota torus Evans (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) on two cultivars of banana in Karnataka

  • Author: Sharanabasappa, C. M. Kalleshwaraswamy, Nagarajappa Adivappar, M. N. Lavanya

• Diversity of long horned beetle (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) pests in southern Kerala

  • Author: T. Jiji, N. Anitha, Aswathy Asokan, G.V. Akhila

• Record of Papaya Mealybug, Paracoccus marginatus Williams & Granara deWillink and its Natural Enemies on Papaya, Guava, Grapes and Plumeria in Punjab

  • Author: Sandeep Singh, Gurlaz Kaur

• Molecular identification and diversity of Asian Citrus Psyllids using mtCoI gene sequences

  • Author: B. N. Chaitanya, R. Asokan, K. B. Rebijith, C. N. Rao, P. Ram Kumar, N. K. Krishna Kumar

• Effect of host plants on the extent of parasitism of Diaphania indica (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) by Dolichogenidea stantoni (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

  • Author: K. Soumya, P. N. Ganga Visalakshy, A. Krishnamoorthy, K. Gopalakrishna Pillai

• Bioefficacy of certain insecticides against blossom midge, Asphondylia capsici Barens on capsicum under field conditions

  • Author: V. L. Pathipati, T. V. K. Singh, S. B. Vemuri, R.V.S.K. Reddy, N. B. Bharathi,

• Bio-efficacy of fungal pathogens against jasmine gallery worm, Elasmopalpus jasminophagus (Lepidoptera: Phycitidae)

  • Author: K. Gopalakrishna Pillai, C. J. Nethravathi, P. N. Ganga Visalakshy, C. Swathi

• Influence of host plants on the susceptibility of Spodoptera litura (Fabricius) to insecticides

  • Author: A. S. Mochi, S. K. Patil, S. R. Kulkarni

• Artificial diet to rear the coffee white stem borer, Xylotrechus quadripes Chev.

  • Author: H. G. Seetharama, M. S. Uma., G. Manjula, T. M. Kumar, P. K. Vinod Kumar

• An in-vivo method for mass multiplication of bacterial parasite, Pasteuria penetrans of root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne sp.

  • Author: N. Swarnakumari, R. Umamaheswari, C.V. Sivakumar

• RESEARCH NOTE

  New report of fruit infesting gall midge on mango

  • Author: C. M. Kalleshwaraswamy, P. V. Rami Reddy, Sharanabasappa

• Pomegranate, a newly documented host plant of tea mosquito bug, Helopeltis antonii Signoret

  • Author: P. D. Kamala Jayanthi, T. Nagaraja, T. Raghava, Vivek Kempraj

• Influence of weather factors on aphid population and the incidence of Papaya Ring Spot Virus disease

  • Author: G. Thiribhuvanamala, S. Sridharan, K. Soorianathasundaram, M. Krishna Reddy

• Diachasmimorpha (Biosteres) longicaudata (Ashmead): A potential parasitoid for biocontrol of fruit flies, Bactrocera spp. in Punjab

  • Author: Sandeep Singh

• Record of Hollyhock as an important alternate host of Earias vittella (Fab.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in eastern Uttar Pradesh

  • Author: Jaydeep Halder, Deepak Kushwaha, Pragya Ranjan, A.B. Rai, Sunil Gupta

• Effect of biopesticides on management of Helicoverpa armigera in Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera Linn.)

  • Author: Syed Khadeeru Rehaman, S. Pradeep