Vol. 11, Special Issue 7 (2022)

Author(s):
Monika Rathore, AK Awasthi, RKS Tomar, Archana Kerketta, Dinesh Pandey and NK Chaure

Abstract:
The field experiment was conducted during kharif 2021 at Instructional farm of BTC College of Agriculture and Research Station, Bilaspur, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur (C.G.). The studies revealed that the first appearance (0.20 larvae/mrl) of green semilooper on Sesbania rostrata was observed during the 34^th standard week in vegetative stage, which continued to build up with intermediately up and downs and reached maximum (1.80 larvae/mrl) during last week of October in early pod formation stage and observed up to early maturity stage of crop. The correlation studies revealed that population of green semilooper was exhibited significant positive correlation with maximum temperature (r = 0.569) and all other weather parameters were non- significantly correlated with population of green semilooper.