Efficacy of Different Insecticides Against Mustard Sawfly, A. proxima Infesting Mustard Ghule D. D.1, Bagde A.S.2,* 1Fratelli Wines Pvt. Ltd., Akluj 2Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, Kolhapur *email: drabhaybagde@rediffmail.com
Online published on 2 January, 2017. Abstract Different insecticides were tested against saw fly of mustard. All the insecticides shows effectiveness against mustard saw fly. Among the insecticidal treatments viz., 0.005 per cent fipronyl (0.08 larval population per five plants) and 0.005 per cent lambda cyhalothrin (0.30 larval population per five plants) were found to be effective for the control of mustard sawfly, A. proxima (Klug.). The decreasing order of efficacy of different insecticidal treatments was 0.005 per cent fipronyl, 0.005 per cent lambda cyhalothrin, 0.05 per cent quinolphos, 0.05 per cent profenophos, 0.05 per cent cartap hydrochloride, 0.05 per cent DDVP, 0.005 per cent imidacloprid, 0.03 per cent dimethoate, 0.003 per cent thiomethoxam 0.5 per cent nimbicidine and 0.006 per cent clothianidin. Top Keywords Mustard saw fly, Fipronyl, Mustard. Top |