author(s)
Ruchika Kataria and Dolly Kumar

abstract
Management of insect pests damaging the economically important crops without insecticides is growing importance amongst the farmers and researchers. Physical, Mechanical, Chemical and Biological control are various strategies for controlling the pests. Out of all the plans; ecofriendly biolures are useful in reducing the population of insect pests, minimizing the use of chemicals. The objectives of this work are: i. Screening of insect pests in the agricultural fields around Vadodara. ii. Isolation, Identification and characterization of the pheromones of those insects, which are damaging the economically important crops. iii. Once, synthesized, performing of laboratory and field trials. An increase in use of pheromonal traps will reduce the load of insecticides from the agricultural fields of not only Vadodara, Gujarat but the rest of the country also, and will be an important contribution towards the on-going Integrated Pest Management programmes.