author(s)
Diksha Devi, SC Verma, PL Sharma, HK Sharma, Neha Gupta and Pallavi Thakur

abstract
Climate Change is possibly the most significant global change that has attracted the attention of scientific communities globally. Climate induced changes in pest activity which further affects agricultural production. Anthropogenically induced climate change arising from increasing levels of greenhouse gases in atmosphere would likely to have a significant effect on agricultural pests. Changes in climate may trigger major changes in geographical distribution of insect pests, insect population dynamics, survival of insect pests, herbivore-plant interaction, activity and abundance of natural enemies and efficacy of crop protection technologies. Increased pest population will stress crop plants results in higher crop loss, reduce yield and quality of produce. Insects are poikilothermic in nature and therefore they are highly sensitive to their surrounding climate particularly the temperature. Due to climate change, there is an increase in number of pest population, outbreaks of pests and increased number of generations per year. This would definitely increase the damage caused by insects, decrease crop yield, increase the cost on crop protection and thereby affect the economy. Therefore, there is a need to generate information on the likely effects of climate change on insect pests to develop robust technologies that will be effective and economical in the future under global warming and climate change.