Study on seasonal incidence of insect pests of vegetable crops collected through light trap

Abstract

The present research was carried out by operating, Jawahar light trap (with 125 Watt mercury vapour lamp) in vegetable field at Horticulture experimental farm, Maharajpur, during Rabi 2016-17 (November to April). The result showed that all 4 species of vegetable pest having regular occurrence in light trap catches likeGram pod borer Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner),Cabbage semilooper Plusia orichalcea (Fabricius), Tobaco caterpillar Spodoptera litura (Fabricius), Cutworm, Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel). Among these 4 pest cut worm dominate the light trap catches, followed by gram pod borer, cabbage semilooper and tobacco caterpillar.