Beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua (Hübner), and fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith), are occasional pests of cotton, Gossypium hirsutum (L.), and soybean, Glycine max (L.) Merrill. These insects can be difficult to control due to insecticide resistance and larval behavior on plants. The objectives of these studies were to determine the efficacy of selected insecticides against nat...

Field experiments were conducted at two different geographical regions viz., tropical region (Naraseepuram village, Coimbatore) and temperate (Kookal Kotagiri, The Nilgiris) in summer winter season’s to assess the bioefficacy of insecticides used against Diamondbackmoth (DBM), Plutella xylostella their potential impact on natural enemies cauliflower. results revealed that diamide like cyantrani...

In Agricultural practices pesticides are used for crop production and to produce high yield. But indiscriminate and excessive use of pesticides in agriculture leads to environmental pollution and in soil it is not degrading. A pesticide disturbs the activities of soil enzymes and soil micro biota. So we investigated in laboratory conditions that the effect of two insecticides, Thiodicarb (Dimet...

Abstract: Mechanical damage is a serious problem for the physiological potential of soybean seeds, especially when combined with chemical treatment. The aim this study was to investigate effects treatment on seeds increasing levels mechanical damage. Soybean (cv. M6410 IPRO) two lots differences in vigor were subjected five (zero, one, two, three, and four impacts) brought about controlled mann...

Abstract: This work evaluated the efficiency of accelerated aging test to determine physiological potential in treated soybean seeds with fungicides and insecticides, addition analyzing concordance between results obtained by different methods actual quality after storage. The study was divided into two experiments, both entirely randomized delineation, four replications. In first experiment, s...

The present investigation entitled Evaluation of the efficacy some insecticides against rice yellow stem borer, Scirpophaga incertulas (Walker) was undertaken at MAE Farm, Regional Agriculture Research Station, Karjat (M.S.) during Kharif 2018. overall mean borer infestation (dead heart) varied from 1.23 – 7.50 per cent. T5 (Flubendiamide 20 WG @ 0.005%) recorded minimum (1.23%) and which signi...

Twelve field experiments and one laboratory experiment were conducted to determine the effects of furrow applied aldicarb and seed treatments of thiamethoxam, imidacloprid, Avicta (thiamethoxam + abamectin), Aeris (imidacloprid + thiodicarb), and acephate on twospotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch, on cotton, Cossypium hirsutum L. For the field experiments, data were pooled across all ...

Tobacco is an important cash crop of Pakistan and tremendous amount of irrational pesticides are being used to control insect growth. The frequency of plasma pesticide residues above acceptable daily intake (ADI) and its correlation with biochemical markers for assessment of adverse health effects in the tobacco farmers at district Sawabi, Pakistan was determined. Total 109 adult males consisti...