Biology and isolation of bio-agents from sugarcane white grub in western plain zone of Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract

An experiment conducted at biocontrol laboratory of Sardar Vallabbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. To study the out of 35 grubs sampled of sugarcane white grub were examined, the entomopathogenic nematodes Heterorhabditis species were recovered from grub of two samples and Heterorhabditis spp. was identified in this region. The white grub species Holotrichia nagpurensis was dominant on sugarcane crop. The total life cycle of Holotrichia nagpurensis was completed in about 254.5 days during 2011-12 and 2012-13.