EFFICACY
OF SOME IPM PACKAGE AGAINST RED PUMPKIN BEETLE AND FRUIT FLY
ON SWEET GOURD
Tahmina Akter*,
Rifat Naznin Munni and Redwanul Haque
Abstract
The research experiment was conducted to efficacy
of some IPM
package against
Red pumpkin beetle and fruit fly on sweet gourd during (October-May) of 2015-2016. The experiment consisted
of five IPM package (T1-Applying
Cultural and Mechanical control method
at 7 days interval, T2-
Applying Mechanical control
method at 7 days interval +
using pheromone
trap, T3-Applying
Cultural control method and spraying
Suntaf 50 SP @ 1.5 gm per liter of water at 7 days interval, T4-Applying Mechanical control method and spraying
Sumialpha 5EC @ 1.0 ml per liter of water at 7 days interval, T5-Combination of Chemical (Sevin
85 SP @ 1.5 gm in 1 liter of water), Cultural and field sanitation at 7
days interval) along with one control (T6-Untreated).
At the vegetative and reproductive stage of sweet gourd, T5
showed least infestation of beetle over others (64.12%). The greatest
infestation was shown in T6. At
the reproductive stage, the highest number of fruit fly were recorded (13.67)
from T6, whereas the lowest (1.33) and the least percent fruit
infestation over control were recorded from T2. The highest weight
of single fruit of sweet gourd (1050 g) were recorded in T5 and the
lowest (898 g) was recorded in T6.
Key Words: Sweet
gourd, Red pumpkin beetle, Aulacophora
foveicollis; fruit fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae ; IPM package.
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