author(s)
Sharanappa CH, Pramod Katti, Arunkumar H, Sushila N, Desai BK and Pampanna Y

abstract
The experiment was carried out at Main Agriculture Research Station, Raichur, during Rabi 2018. The observations were recorded at one day before spraying, while the post treatment observations were recorded at 3, 5 and 7 days after each spraying. There are three spray of spinosad 45 SC (60 ml/acre), spinetoram 12 SC (200 ml/acre), cynatraniliprole 10 OD (200 ml/acre), fipronil 5 SC (200 ml/acre), spiromesifen 24 SC (200 ml/acre), diafenthiuron 25 WP (200 ml/acre) and dicofol 18.5 EC (500 ml/acre) in capsicum at 20 days interval against thrips and mites. The result revealed that, the overall mean per cent reduction of thrips population after imposing, first, second and third spray was highest in spinosad 45 SC (88.15%) followed by fipronil 5 SC (87.24%) were found to be significantly superior than rest of the treatments. For the control of mites, spiromesifen 24 SC (86.23%) dicofol 18.5 SC (85.26%), diafenthuron 25 WP (82.14%) were proved to be significantly superior compared to the rest of the chemical pesticides