Vol. 12, Special Issue 12 (2023)

Author(s):
Dhanashri Khatake, Dayanand More, Sangita Magar, Pratiksha Khedkar and Dilip Randive

Abstract:
Pulses are mainly attacked by sucking pests and the colour sticky traps are the effective as well as environment friendly tool used to manage them. Considering this, the experiment in factorial randomized block design was conducted in field of College of Agriculture, Latur, Maharashtra during kharif 2022-2023 to evaluate five different colour i.e. green, white, blue, red, yellow sticky traps in three pulse crops viz., black gram, cowpea and green gram. Observations on sucking pests and natural enemies were recorded at 10 days interval. White was the most effective colour with respect to management of aphid followed by yellow, blue green and red. While blue was most attractive colour for leafhoppers followed by white, green, red and yellow. White and blue found to be equally effective against thrips followed by green, yellow and red traps. Maximum whiteflies were trapped on yellow colour followed by green, white, red and blue trap. For all the sucking pests, maximum population was trapped on traps which were installed in green gram plots while minimum was found in cowpea and black gram.