Pesticides have been used to control these pests but none has yielded better cost and benefit ratio due to increasing hazards related to human life, domestic animals and environment. Recent trends in cotton production have been to minimize the use of pesticides and ultimately control the pest by better management practices (BMPs). Keeping in view these critical issues the experiment was conducted during May-October 2009 under randomized complete block design (RCBD) with five treatments, biological control agents (T1), foliar applications of botanical Neemosal, azadirachtin+salannin...
Pesticides have been used to control these pests but none has yielded better cost and benefit ratio due to increasing hazards related to human life,...
The Research presented in this book was conducted in the Bio systematic laboratory in the Department of Agri. Entomology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad. Collection of Aedes albopictues was done on weekly basis from the botanical gardan of the University and from different localities of Faisalabad by placing tires, collected mosquitoes were rearded in the insectry. Fifteen plants and Thirteen citrus cultivars were used as larvicide. Soxhelt apparatus was used for extraction of oil by using different plant parts. Ether was used as solvent, 30 late 3rd and early 4th instar larvae were...
The Research presented in this book was conducted in the Bio systematic laboratory in the Department of Agri. Entomology, University of Agriculture Fa...