Vol. 11, Special Issue 8 (2022)

Author(s):
Priyanka Dewangan, Avinash Gupta, VK Dubey, Divedi Prasad and D Nishad

Abstract:
The present investigation was conducted at Dry Land Horticulture Research Farm, Pt. Shiv Kumar Shastri College of Agriculture & Research Station, Surgi; district Rajnandgaon during Kharif-Rabi, 2020-21. In the pest succession studies, twenty four insect pests were recorded causing damage at various growth stages of pomegranate. Among them thrips; Scirtothrips sp. was recorded as major insect pests of pomegranate. The studies revealed that the first appearance of thrips was during 1^st week of August (31^st SMW) with a mean population 2.50 thrips/5 cm shoot and peak population 5.50 thrips/5 cm shoot was recorded during third week of December (51^st SMW). Study on correlation with abiotic factors revealed a highly significantly negative relationship was found between thrips with maximum temperature (r = -0.457) while morning relative humidity showed highly significantly positive correlation (r = 0.449).