author(s)
Monica Jat, Narayan Lal Dangi, Hemant Swami and KV Nagarjuna Reddy

abstract
The experiment on management of sucking insect pests i.e., whitefly and mealybugs infesting tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) under protected cultivation was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of various insecticides with the treatments as acephate 75 SP, acetamiprid 20 SP, diafenthiuron 30 WP, spiromesifen 22.9 SC, Beauveria bassiana and neem oil (1%) including untreated control at High-tech Unit of Department of horticulture, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, MPUAT, Udaipur during kharif season, 2018. Among the different treatments, acetamiprid 20 SP was proved highly effective as it recorded the maximum population reduction with 65.66%, 67.20% and 58.32% in whitefly and mealybug population respectively, while neem oil @ 1% proved to be least effective against whitefly and mealybug among all the treatments applied.