Effect of meteorological parameters on population fluctuation of leaf miner infesting bitter gourd
Sonali S Lad, KV Naik, MS Karmarkar and GM Golvankar
The present studies was conducted to know the effect of meteorological parameters on population fluctuation of leaf miner infesting bitter gourd during rabi-summer season of 2017-18 at Centre of Excellence for Mango, College of Agriculture, Dapoli, Dist. Ratnagiri (M.S).
The observation of bitter gourd leaf miner population was recorded at weekly interval as per standard meteorological week. The influence of weather factors on population density of leaf miner was analyzed by a simple correlation study and coefficients were worked out. Results indicated that there were marked differences observed in infestation of leaf miner. The population of leaf miners (0.32 ± 0.22) was observed in the 13th SMW (26th March - 1st April). Minimum leaf miner infestation (0.01 ± 0.22) were recorded in 23rd SMW (5th - 11th June), while maximum (0.50 ± 0.22) infestation was recorded during 15th SMW (9th - 15th April) and 16th SMW (23rd – 29th April). The data on correlation between mean population of leaf miner infesting bitter gourd and different weather parameters revealed that all the meteorological parameters viz., maximum temperature, morning relative humidity and evening relative humidity were found to be non-significant with mean population of leaf miner. The minimum temperature was negatively significant with leaf miner population.
Sonali S Lad, KV Naik, MS Karmarkar, GM Golvankar. Effect of meteorological parameters on population fluctuation of leaf miner infesting bitter gourd. J Entomol Zool Stud 2021;9(1):763-765.