author(s)
AS Saw, SA Pawar, CS Patil, RV Kadu and BT Patil

abstract
An experiment entitled “Evaluation of different pest management modules for the management of thrips (Scirtothrips dorsalis Hood, Thrips parvispinus Karny), whitefly (Bemisia tabaci Genn.) and mites (Polyphagotarsonemus latus Bank) in chilli” was conducted at the AICRP on Vegetable Crops, Department of Horticulture, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, Dist.: Ahmednagar (Maharashtra) during kharif 2023. During the course of study, three pest management modules viz., Bio-intensive, Integrated and Chemical module consisting spraying of different pesticides as well as biopesticides were evaluated with untreated control in Randomized Block Design (RBD) with five replications. The studies on evaluation of pest management modules against thrips revealed that Integrated module was found to be most effective and recorded least (4.11 mean surviving thrips/3 leaves/plant) thrips population and it was at par with chemical module which recorded 4.53 mean surviving thrips/3 leaves/plant. In case of black thrips, Integrated module found significantly superior over all other modules with (2.88 mean surviving black thrips /3 flowers/ plant) and found at par with chemical module which recorded 3.32 mean surviving black thrips / 3 flowers/ plant. In case of whitefly, the Integrated module was observed superior to rest of the treatments and recorded 3.02 mean surviving whitefly population per three leaves per plant and found at par with Chemical module which recorded 3.09 mean surviving whitefly population/ 3 leaves/ plant. The Integrated module found most effective for controlling of mites, with (4.21 mean surviving mites/ 3 leaves/ plant) and found at par with chemical module. Impact of different pest management modules on predatory coccinellids in chilli showed that the treatment with Bio-intensive module recorded maximum survived grub population, i.e. 4.22 grubs/plant followed by Integrated module (3.85 grubs/plant) indicating their relative safety to the grubs of coccinellids after sprays. The highest yield of green chilli was registered from the Integrated module plot 165.02 q/ha with ICBR (1:13.95). followed by chemical module with 158.54 q/ha with ICBR (1:8.52); while in the Bio-intensive module the yield recorded was 149.66 q/ha with ICBR (1:9.93).