MONITORING OF VARIOUS TRAPS AGAINST INSECT PESTS OF CUCUMBER (CUCUMIS SATIVUS L.) UNDER PROTECTED CULTIVATION
Department of Entomology, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur-313001 Rajasthan, India
RICHA BANSHIWAL, N.L. DANGI*, M.K.MAHLA AND KULDEEP KUMAR
An experiment was conducted in polyhouse to evaluate the efficacy of various traps viz. yellow sticky trap (YST), blue sticky trap (BST), yellow pan trap (YPT) and blue pan trap (BPT) to trap populations of whiteflies, thrips and leaf miners infesting cucumber. The whiteflies, leaf miners and thrips were captured in the different traps from first week of August (30th SMW) through the last week of September (37th SMW) and their mean numbers per plant on YST were 112.20, on BST 85.00, on YPT 18.20 and on BPT 13.20.The quantum of leaf miners trapped were 12.65 on YST and 3.85 on BST; and 15.67 and 6.97 caught on BST and YST for thrips. Leaf miner and thrips were not trapped in YPT and BPT.