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Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill; Solanaceae) is one of the major horticultural crops cultivated in India. In order to ensure year-round availability of tomatoes, farmers are shifting to protected cultivation practices. Although the name ‘protected cultivation’ suggests freedom from biotic as well as abiotic hindrances in crop cultivation, incidence of pests have been reported in crops grown under polyhouses. This causes net house cultivators to use more chemical insecticides. Thus, an environmentally safe and economical method, comprising sticky traps, was evaluated for the management of sucking pests of tomato grown under protected conditions. Sticky traps of different shapes (rectangle, circle and triangle) and colours (yellow, blue and silver) were evaluated against sucking pests of tomato in 2018. The sticky trap, which found most efficient during 2018, was installed at different rates (2, 4 and 6 traps/250 m2) in the year 2019. Among the various sticky traps evaluated, yellow colour and rectangular trap proved best among the other shapes and colours against the aphids and whiteflies infesting tomato under protected conditions. On standardization of yellow-rectangular trap in 2019, a rate of installation of 4, 6 and 2, 4, 6 traps per 250 m2 were effective in reducing the population of aphids and whiteflies, respectively. Hence it could be concluded that yellow-rectangular sticky trap installed at a rate of 4 per 250 m2 proved effective against sucking pests of tomato grown under protected conditions.
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We are thankful to the Head, Department of Entomology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India for providing necessary facilities for the successful completion of the work.
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Nair, I.J., Sharma, S. & Shera, P.S. Impact of sticky traps of different colours and shapes against sucking pests of tomato under protected conditions: a randomized controlled trial. Int J Trop Insect Sci 41, 2739–2746 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42690-021-00453-3
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