author(s)
DK Ghuge, SS Gosalwad and SK Patil

abstract
An investigation on the seasonal incidence of sucking pests and fruit borers ants its natural enemies on okra was carried out at the Department of Agricultural Entomology, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani during Kharif 2018. The results revealed that the population of sucking pests viz., aphid (Aphis gossypi), jassid (Amarasca biguttula biguttula) and whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) ranged between 9.20 - 56.40, 3.60 - 22.0, 1.40 -14.80 per three leaves, respectively. The first appearance of sucking pests was noticed in 29^th SMW, whereas its peak period was 36^th, 37^th and 38^th SMW, of aphid, jassid and whitefly, respectively. The first appearance of fruit borers i.e. Earias vittella and Helicoverpa armigera was noticed in 30^th and 33^rd SMW with 0.9 and 1.8 larvae/plant, respectively, thereafter it was increased gradually and reached its peak of 6.4 and 3.6 larvae/plant in 39^th and 37^th SMW, respectively. As regards correlation studies with weather factors, aphids and E. vittella shows negatively significant correlated with rainfall. Whitefly and E. vittella shows negatively significant correlated with maximum temperature. Aphids, jassids and ladybird beetles showed positively significant correlation with evening relative humidity. E. vittella had negatively significant correlation with wind velocity and positively significant correlation bright sunshine hours.