Efficacy of insecticides and botanicals against Lipaphis Erysimi (Kalt.) on mustard Sanp Ramesh Kumar*, Singh Veer, Yadav Suresh Kumar, Yadav Amit Kumar Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner, 334006 *Email: yadavrk.ento84@gmail.com
Online published on 4 January, 2018. Abstract Field experiment was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of seven insecticides and two botanicals against the mustard aphid, Lipaphis erysimi (Kalt.) at the Research farm, College of Agriculture, Bikaner. It revealed that imidacloprid 0.005% spray was the most effective followed by thiamethoxam 0.005% and dimethoate 0.03%. Oxydemeton methyl 0.025%, fenvalerate 0.02%, profenophos 0.005% and lufenuron 0.0025% were moderately effective. The treatment of NSKE 5.0% was observed less effective followed by azadirachtin 0.5%. Top Keywords Insecticides, botanicals, field efficacy, mustard aphid, imidacloprid, thiamethoxam, dimethoate, NSKE, azadirachtin. Top |