PANKAJ KUMAR, M.K. MAHLA, O.P. AMETA, LEKHAAND AZAD MORDIA

An experiment was conducted to study the insect pest faunal complex of maize at the Instructional Farm, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, MPUAT, Udaipur, during kharif 2014. Maize variety, Pratap Makka-5 was sown in the second week of July in plots size of 3.0m x 3.0m replicated four times. A total of ten insect pests were recorded of which the major happened to be the maize stem borer, Chilo partellus (Swinhoe);  Mythimna separata Walker; maize aphid, Rhophalosiphum maidis; cob  worm, Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner) grey weevil,Myllocerus discolour Bohemann;and the phadka grasshopper, Bolivar; besides, three different natural enemies including four species of coccinellid beetles, the green lacewing and Cotesia flavipes Cameron, the larval parasitoid of stem borer were observed and could be collected.