author(s)
Rakesh Kumar and Poonam Srivastava

abstract
Monitoring of insect pest is an important basic tool for a successful IPM programme. Timely identification of insect pest makes timely management in order to avoid economic damage and save money. Therefore, a field experiment was carried out to evaluate the different colored sticky traps for monitoring mango hoppers in mango orchard during flowering and fruiting season from March to June in year 2018. For this experiment ten various coloured tough papers viz., yellow, light yellow, blue, light blue, white, orange, pink, grey, green and brown were selected and polybutene was used to prepare sticky traps. Observations of hoppers on sticky traps were recorded at weekly interval. Results revealed that highest number of mango hoppers attracted towards yellow traps (18.50 hoppers/ trap/week) followed by blue (11.50 hoppers/ trap/week). Although light blue coloured traps 7.00 hoppers/ trap/week, light yellow (7.50 hoppers/ trap/week) and white (4.75 hoppers/ trap/week). However, lowest number of hoppers was captured by orange trap (3.50 hoppers/ trap/week) captured higher number of hoppers (3.50 hoppers/ trap/week) as compare to grey (2.25 hoppers/ trap/week) pink trap (2.00 hoppers/ trap/week), brown (1.50 hoppers/ trap/week) and green (1.25 hoppers/ trap/week) sticky traps. Hence the effectiveness of sticky traps in descending order of yellow > blue > light blue > light yellow > white > orange > pink > grey > brown > green. Because of low cost, easily availability, no need of skilled labour and environment friendly, theses traps can be used to achieve a significant pest management programme.