Vol. 10, Special Issue 7 (2021)

Author(s):
VM Shinde, GB Kabre and ST Aghav

Abstract:
The field experiment was carried out on efficacy of insecticides and botanicals in the management of fruit flies infesting ridge gourd during kharif season of 2018 and 2019 at Post Graduate Research Farm, Department of Agricultural Entomology, MPKV, Rahuri. During this study evaluate seven insecticides and botanicals. The results regarding pooled of both years on the efficacy of insecticides and botanicals indicated that Spinosad 45 SC was the most effective treatment which recorded minimum (19.38%) mean fruit infestation and was at par with Deltamethrin 2.8 EC (20.34%) continued its superiority over rest of the treatments under study. The next best treatments were Azadirachtin 10000 ppm (25.21%), Emamectin Benzoate 5 SG (27.48), Dichlorvos 76 EC (26.14%), Dashparni ark (31.67%) and Lantana extract (34.03%) were statistically at par with each other.