author(s)
SS Bora, DK Saikia, Ingudam Bhupenchandra, M Sonowal Bora, BA Gudade, TN Deka, Amit Kumar and AB Aage

abstract
Bhut jolokia is one of the most sought after chilli because of its pungency due to high capsaicin content which production affected to a great extent by the infestation of insect pests. Insect pest associated with this crop recorded at weekly interval at rabi season for two consecutive year 2017-18 and 2018-19 at Horticultural Research Farm of Assam agricultural University located at Jorhat, Assam to find out the insect pest and natural enemies associated with the crop and a total of 23 insect pest found to be affecting the crop during the studies and among it twenty two pests under class Insecta while one under Arachnida. Among the insect pest order Hemiptera found to be dominant pest in terms of relative abundance in both years 43.47 and 42.85 per cent. In diversity studies, Simpson’s index and Shannon-Weaver’s index revealed clearly that the pests were quite diverse with evenly distributed having low dominance of any particular species. During the study, 14 nos. of natural enemies associated with the crop of which 7 nos. under class Insecta and 7 nos. under Arachnida, while 12 nos. of casual visitor under class Insecta.