Integrated management strategy for controlling sucking pests of cotton

摘要

Cotton crop is attacked by a large number of insect pests starting from germination till maturity. These insects by way of sucking cell sap, feeding on fruiting forms and foliage cause major losses in quantity and quality of produce. Among the sap sucking insects, jassid, whitefly, aphid, thrips and mite are prominent which causes losses by sucking cell sap from leaves and tender plants as a result of which vitality of the plants is lowered leading to reduction in yield. Among these cotton jassid and whitefly are more serious especially on American cotton under Punjab conditions. After the introduction of a notorious disease i.e. cotton leaf cud virus (CLCV) the severity of damage due to whitefly has even increased at it is a vector of this disease. The identification of cotton jassid and whitefly and integrated management strategy of' sucking pests is given below.