Vol. 12, Issue 3 (2023)

Author(s):
Poreddy Damodar Reddy, A Sujatha, K Gopal, RVSK Reddy, K Umakrishna and CH Chinabbai

Abstract:
Invasive species are one of the major and most rapidly growing threats to agriculture, of these A. rugioperculatus (RSW) was a feeding pest that causes stress to the host plant by removing water and nutrients, as well as production of honeydew, which covers the surface of leaves results in reduced photosynthesis of the plant. Present investigation was carried out in oil palm orchard at farmers field, Venkataramannagudem to evaluate the attraction efficiency of RSW towards different colour sticky traps (Yellow, Blue, Green, White, Black, Red and Brown) in 2 seasons, where in each season experiment was repeated twice. The results revealed that yellow sticky traps attract more number of RSW (23.40 adults/15 days in both repeated experiments in winter and 23.00 & 22.60 adult/15days seasons in summer, respectively), irrespective of the season when compared to all the other stick traps tested.