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A Nate on the Population Fluctuations of Rice Gall Midge and Yellow Stem Borer in Warangal Region of Andhra Pradesh, India

Volume : 68
Issue: Apr-apr
Pages: 266 - 269
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Abstract


On rainy season rice crop, gall miage, Orsectia cryzde Wood Masun and Yellow stemborar. Scirpophaga incertulos Walker are regular insect posts in War-angal region. As a part of Lasic studies in ecological aspects of these two pests an attemut was made to correlate the Important weather factors f'ke tempera-ture, rainfall and humidity of crop season (July-November), pre-season (June-August) and off season (March-June) with light trap catches and field inci-dences, recorded at the Agricultural Research Station, Warangal. The perio-dical field data of these two pests on a susceptible variety and light trop catchos of 1980 season alone were compared with the temperature, rainfall as well as key m rta ity factors like parasatization.

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266 - 269
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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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