author(s)
Balram Lodhi, Pratibha Bhatnagar and Bharat Aarmo

abstract
The present study was carried out for the assessment of the abundance of various insect associated with lac insect in seoni and balaghat district of madhya pradesh during 2020-2021. During the study 12 species of fauna were reported with Kerria lacca kerr, 3, predators, 4 parasitoids and 5 hyper parasitoids belonging to 10 families. The study revealed that E. amabilis and P. pulverea are the major predator and T. Tachardiae and P. clavicornis found are the most destructive parasitoids of lac insects. In Seoni district maximum abundance was of T. tachardiae (43.12%) followed by P. clavicornis (23.9%), E. amabilis (18.70%), P. pulverea (8.31%) whereas in Balaghat district similarly maximum abundance was of similarly T. tachardiae (74.8%) followed by P. clavicornis (9.22%), E. amabilis (7.32%) and P. pulverea (6.18%). Results revealed that the number of predators and parasitoids was higher in Balaghat district as compared to Seoni district and the maximum number of lac associated fauna were found in Lohmara, Katangi (484) and Budbuda, Waraseoni (350) in Balaghat district. The study concludes that the abundance of predators, parasitoids and hyper parasitoids varied considerably in different lac growing sites of Seoni and Balaghat districts. Predator E. amabilis and P. pulveria, parasitoids T. tachardie and P.clavicornis are abundantly found in most of the lac cultivation sites whereas hyper parasitoids Brocon greeni, P. sulci and Brachymeria tachardiae occurred in less frequency in different lac growing sites of Seoni and Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh.