Year : 2023, Volume : 85, Issue : 3
First page : ( 640) Last page : ( 642)
Print ISSN : 0367-8288. Online ISSN : 0974-8172. Published online : 2023  18.
Article DOI : 10.55446/IJE.2023.968

Seasonal Incidence of Spodoptera litura (F) on Soybean

Rajashekar K^1,*, Chauhan Sreedhar¹, Santhosh K¹

¹Agricultural Research Station, Ram Nagar, Adilabad504002, Telangana, India

^*Email: kanjarlarajashekar@gmail.com (corresponding author): ORCID ID 0000-0002-1539-5688

Online Published on 18 October, 2023.

Abstract

An investigation was carried out to “Study on seasonal incidence of Spodoptera litura (F.) on soybean” at Agriculture Research Station (ARS), Adilabad, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University during kharif, 2017 and 2018. The pooled results indicated that among different sowing dates viz., 15^th-18^th of June (sowing I), 25^th-28^th of June (sowing II), 5^th-7^th of July (sowing III), 15^th-17^th of July (sowing IV) and 25^th-27^th of July (sowing V) sowing I recorded minimum incidence (2.81 larvae/ meter row length) of S. litura population and maximum incidence in sowing II (4.34 larvae/ meter row length), similarly sowing I recorded minimum incidence (2.97 larvae/ meter row length) and maximum incidence in sowing II (4.34 larvae/ meter row length) during kharif, 2017 and 2018, respectively.

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Keywords

Seasonal incidence, Spodoptera litura, Soybean, Kharif, Sowing dates, Minimum incidence, Population.

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