Evaluation of Diamide and Neonicotinoid group of insecticides against maize stem borer, Chilo partellus (Swinhoe) as seed treatment
Tanweer Alam, Shivakumara MN, Rabindra Prasad and Veeresh Kumar
The present investigation was carried out at research farm, Tirhut College of Agriculture, Dholi during kharif 2018 in evaluate the efficacy of tetraniliprole 480 FS. The results revealed that treatment T4 was found to be the best among all insecticides tested with respect to number of damaged plant, minimum leaf injury, plant height and yield. However, treatment T2, T3, T5 and T6 were found safe to natural enemies among all the insecticides tested.