Vol. 12, Issue 7 (2023)

Author(s):
Nivedita Shah, Chunni Kumari and Jayalaxmi Ganguli

Abstract:
Survey work has been done at different crop ecosystems from the Raipur region during Kharif- Rabi, 2019-20 and 2020-21. Rice meal moth, Corcyra cephalonica was used to trap Braconids on a few cereals (paddy and maize), legumes (mung bean and chickpea), vegetables (brinjal, tomato, cabbage and okra), and fruits (ber, guava, sapota and mango) ecosystem and the collected species was studied for their respective characters at the Biological control laboratory, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, Chhattisgarh. Many species of braconid wasps that have been observed during the survey are believed to have the potential parasitoids of insect pests.