Demographic outbursts and increased food demands invoke excessive use of pesticides in
the agricultural field for increasing productivity which leads to the relentless decline of …

Pesticides consumption along with its impact on different matrices of the environment has
increased over past. Monitoring and risk assessment is important to know the exact scenario …

Abstract Thrips palmi (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) is an important pest of vegetables,
ornamentals, and legumes worldwide. Besides damage caused by feeding, it transmits …

Melon thrips (Thrips palmi) is the principal insect pest of vegetable and ornamental plants
worldwide. In addition to inflicting feeding injuries on host plants, they act as vectors of …

Thrips palmi, an important pest of vegetables and ornamentals, transmits several
tospoviruses. Effect of tospovirus on host plant and vector is well studied. Little is known …

All the insecticides tested were superior to untreated check by recording lower population of
sucking pests. Among the insecticides tested, acetamiprid 25 SP@ 0.2 g/L was effective …

A package of treatments comprising sprays of difentheuron (Pegasus 50 WP@ 1 g/L)
followed with acetamiprid (Ekka 20 SP@ 1 g/L) at 10 days interval 30 days after …

Field experiments were conducted during 2011-12, at Agricultural Research Station, UAS,
Dharwad, Karnataka, South India to know the efficacy of new molecules and botanicals …

Culturing insect cells in vitro has witnessed remarkable growth in the past decades. Over
600 cell lines of dipteran, hemipteran, and lepidopteran insects have been reported so far …

Two most obnoxious invisible enemies of chilli include yellow mite or broad mite (
Polyphagotarsonemus latus) and thrips (Scirtothrips dorsalis) in Indian sub-continent. Dry …