author(s)
Prashant Natikar, P Meganathan and RK Mishra

abstract
The result shows that, different pests are damaging the mulberry crop from the study area which causes heavy economical loss to sericulture farmers. Amongst the insect fauna; 2 Hemipterans, 1 Thysanopteran, 1 Homopteran and 4 Lepidopteran species were recorded. The occurrence of insect-pest from various sites shows that, the incidence of two Hemipterans namely viz., Jassid and pink mealybug, one Thysanopteran i.e., thrips, one Homopteran is whitefly and four Lepidopterans namely viz., leaf eating caterpillar, leaf roller, wasp moth and Bihar hairy caterpillar.