author(s)
Babita Bhatt and AK Karnatak

abstract
A two year (2018- 19 and 2019- 2020) field trial to study arthropod fauna in chilli agro ecosystem was conducted at Vegetable Research Center, Pantnagar. The study revealed the occurrence of arthropod fauna belonging to diverse insect order (11 orders). Maximum number of arthropods which included both insects pests and natural enemies belonged to the order Coleoptera (9 species) followed by Hemiptera (4 species) and Lepidoptera (4 species). The correlation coefficient was also calculated between insect pests and predator population and the results revealed a positive and significant association which showed the tendency of the predators to balance the population of insect pests.