Vol. 9, Special Issue 1 (2021)

There were six insecticides tested against thrips infesting bitter gourd. The results regarding overall mean of three sprays against thrips infesting bitter gourd revealed that the treatment chlorantraniliprole 18.5 SC @ 0.005 per cent was the best treatment which recorded minimum (2.41) population of thrips and was at par with malathion 50 EC @ 0.05 per cent (2.84) and spinosad 45 SC @ 0.014 per cent (3.05). The next effective treatment was emamectin benzoate 5 SG @ 0.002 (3.53) which was at par with treatments azadirachtin 1 EC @ 0.003 per cent (3.65) and lambda cyhalothrin 5 EC @ 0.0025 per cent (3.75). All the treatments were significantly superior over untreated control. The maximum (6.78) thrips population was observed in the untreated control.