54. Efficacy of different botanical and synthetic insecticides on red pumpkin beetle (Aulacophora foveicollis) in bitter gourd

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Iftikhar Ahmed, Sher Ahmed, Abdul Hanan
Department of Agriculture Extension, Rani Bagh Sariab Road, Quetta-Pakistan; PARC-Balochistan Agricultural Research and Development Centre Western Bypass Brewery Road, Quetta-Pakistan
Kamran Jamil, Muhammad Iqbal Jakhro, Abdul Latif, Muhammad Akbar Badini
Department of Agriculture Extension, Rani Bagh Sariab Road, Quetta-Pakistan; PARC-Balochistan Agricultural Research and Development Centre Western Bypass Brewery Road, Quetta-Pakistan; Directorate of Post-Harvest, Agriculture Research Institute Sariab Road, Quetta-Pakistan
Nazeer Ahmed, Zahoor Ahmed khetran, Shahzad Ahmed Shahwani
PARC-ARI Turbat BARDC, Balochistan-Pakistan; PARC-ARI Jaffarabad BARDC, Balochistan-Pakistan; PARC-Balochistan Agricultural Research and Development Centre Western Bypass Brewery Road, Quetta-Pakistan

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Present experiment was laid out to study the efficacy of different botanicals and synthetic insecticides against red pumpkin beetle in bitter gourd crop.  The trail was conducted at Research Farm of Bakhra Shaker Khan, Sibi-Balochistan. Five Treatments viz., Neem oil 1L/acre, Castor oil 1L/acre, Melathion 250L/acre, Imidachloprid 250L/acre with a control (untreated) plot was utilized for this experiment. The efficacy of insecticides was obs8erved after 0, 24, 72 and 7 days of insecticides spraying. 2.94, 2.92, 3.22, 3.72 resultsthat Melathion 250 / acre and Imidachloprid 250L/acre are highly effective against Aulacophora foveicollis.


Keywords: Bitter Gourd; Efficacy; Plant extract; Red pumpkin beetle; Synthetic insecticides


http://dx.doi.org/10.19045/bspab.2018.700213


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

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Published Mar 1, 2019
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Vol 8 No 1: March-2019
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ABDUL HANAN, Iftikhar Ahmed, Sher Ahmed,; ABDUL LATIF, MUHAMMAD AKBAR BADINI, Kamran Jamil, Muhammad Iqbal Jakhro,; SHAHZAD AHMED SHAHWANI, Nazeer Ahmed, Zahoor Ahmed khetran,. 54. Efficacy of different botanical and synthetic insecticides on red pumpkin beetle (Aulacophora foveicollis) in bitter gourd. Pure and Applied Biology (PAB), [S.l.], v. 8, n. 1, p. 530-536, mar. 2019. ISSN 2304-2478. Available at: <https://thepab.org/index.php/journal/article/view/768>. Date accessed: 13 jan. 2025.
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