author(s)
AS Yawale, RW Gawande and SS Shinde

abstract
The present work entitled, “efficacy of newer insecticides against Leucinodes orbonalis (Guen.) on brinjal” were planned to study the efficacy of newer molecules for the management of brinjal shoot and fruit borer on Phule Harit cultivar of brinjal and yield performance by using insecticides. The experiment was conducted in kharif season of 2017-18 on the Insectary field of Department of Entomology, College of agriculture, Nagpur. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design (RBD) with eight treatments including control (water spray) replicated thrice. All the treatments were found significantly superior over (T8) control plot. The treatment (T1) chlorantraniliprole 18.5 SC @ 0.3 ml/lit was found most promising in reducing the BSFB incidence on which recording observations on 3rd, 7th, 10th and 14th DAS to the tune of 8.16, 8.31, 9.27 and 9.83 per cent lowest shoot damage with 71.01, 72.18, 66.16 and 63.01 per cent reduction in infestation over control respectively. The second best treatment was (T3) emamectin benzoate 5 SG @ 0.4 gm/lit which showed effective to curb menace of BSFB and registered shoot infestation on 3rd, 7th 10th and 14^th DAS to the tune of 11.27, 12.10, 12.27 and 13.65 per cent with 59.96, 59.50, 55.20 and 48.65 per cent reduction over control.