Bio-efficacy of insecticidal spray schedule in chilli thrips

Abstract

The investigations on “Bio-efficacy of insecticides against thrips on chilli” was carried out at research farm, Department of Agricultural Entomology, College of Agriculture, Latur (Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani) Maharashtra-India during kharif 2022 using Teja-4 (MHCP-310) variety. The significant difference among the effect of different insecticides spray schedule against chilli thrips indicated that all the insecticides were found to be significantly superior in recording minimum number of thrips over untreated control. The results indicated that the effect of different insecticides spray schedule after all the sprays indicated that among these schedule of insecticides i.e. fipronil 0.5 SC +tolfenpyrad 15 EC + cyantraniliprole 10.50 OD was found most effective sprays schedules at all four spray to reduce the population of thrips and it was at par with lambda-cyhalothrin 5 SC + diafenthiuron 50 WP + emamectin benzoate 0.5 SG followed by spinosad 45 SC + broflanilide 300G/L SC + flubendamide 20 WG in pooled data.