Effect of Sowing Dates on Relative Abundance of Potential Predators of Mustard Aphid, Lipaphis erysimi (Kaltenbach) Naqvi Nakhat Ara, Singh Hem1,,*, Rizvi P Q Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202 002, India 1Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, S V P University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut, 250 110, India *Corresponding author email: hemsingh1972@yahoo.com
Abstract Predators play an important role in containing the mustard aphid population. Present paper deals with their conservation by making minimum use of chemicals. With progressive delay in sowing of the mustard crop, their population got changed with respect to the aphid population index and abiotic factors. Top Keywords Lipaphis erysimi, Coccinella septempunctata, Ischiodon scutellaris, aphids, abiotic. Top |