TITLE:
Comparison of Efficacy of Synthetic Pesticides with Botanical Extracts under Field Condition on Cabbage White Butterfly (Pieris brassicae)
AUTHORS:
Aneela Kanwal, Mehboob Ahmad, Isma Khurshid, Muhammad Pervaiz Khan, Shitab Khan, Imran Ullah, Farkhanda Khan, Muhammad Shahid, Shoaibullah Bashir, Mah Rukh
KEYWORDS:
Botanical Extracts, Efficacy, Cabbage, White Butterfly
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Entomology,
Vol.9 No.1,
January
13,
2021
ABSTRACT: Cabbage white butterfly (Pierisbrassicae) is one of the important insect pests of cabbage crop which causes remarkable quantitative or qualitative crop losses. The research was conducted at Hazara Agricultural research station, Abbottabad (Pakistan) to study the effect of different new chemical insecticides, botanical oil and neem seed oil (AzadirachtaindicaA. Juss.) on the population density of P.brassicae. The study showed that neem oil had a significant effect on population of P.brassicaein comparison to control treatment. So, neem oil alone or in combination with insecticides can be used for control of P.brassicaein vegetable crops for a safer food supply.