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International Journal of Research Studies in Zoology
Volume 3, Issue 4, 2017, Page No: 76-83
doi:dx.doi.org/10.20431/2454-941X.0304011

Integrated Pest Management of Cotton Thrips, Thrips tabaci (Lindeman, 1889) through Selected Pesticides under Vitro Conditions

Zafar Hussain Shah, Hakim Ali Sahito*, Tasneem Kousar, Muhammad Mithal Rind,Faheem Ahmed Jatoi, Wali Muhammad Mangrio

Department of Zoology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur Mir's, Sindh-Pakistan.

Citation :Hakim Ali Sahito et.al., Integrated Pest Management of Cotton Thrips, Thrips tabaci (Lindeman, 1889) through Selected Pesticides under Vitro Conditions International Journal of Research Studies in Zoology 2017,3(4) : 76-83.

Abstract

The cotton crop is known as major crop of Pakistan, vigorously damaged by many insect pests, among them, the research study was conducted on most vital early-season sucking insect pest, thrips (T. tabaci) under cotton field conditions at district: Khairpur during, 2015. The six treatments and replicated four times based on five application of different pesticides of different groups such as; T1 = Pyriproxyfen, T2 = Acetamaprid, T3 = Acephate, T4 = Diafenthiuron and T5 = Nitenpyram and T6 = control plot (without use of pesticide). The results showed that, Acephate pesticide was found more effective and Pyriproxyfen with least effective. Acephate showed the overall reduction (37.39%) in overall sprays when compared with the control (un-sprayed) plot. The second pesticide Acetamaprid was observed with the overall reduction (23.68±7.68%) followed by Nitenpyram (19.45±9.57%), Diafenthiuron (19.33±4.13%) and Pyriproxyfen (1.30±16.94%) when compared with control plot (11.50±1.35), respectively. The analysis of variance showed the significant difference among all pesticides (p<0.05). It is concluded that only Acephate gave the better results up to 12th day among all pesticides therefore, it is suggested to be applied for controlling of T. tabaci on the cotton crop under field conditions.


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