BIO-EFFICACY OF NEWER INSECTICIDES AGAINST POMEGRANATE APHID, APHIS PUNICAE (PASSERINI).

A field experiment was conducted during Ambia bahar - 2019 in the orchard of All India Coordinated Research Project on Arid Zone fruits, Department of Horticulture, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth (M.P.K.V.), Rahuri, Ahmednagar, to evaluate the efficacy of newer insecticides against pomegranate aphid, Aphis punicae. After the application of two sprays, the data revealed that spirotetramat + imidacloprid 240 SC @ 60+60 g a.i. ha^-1 consistently proved to be the most promising insecticide by recording the lowest number of aphids per shoot (2.63). It was, however at par with fipronil 5 SC @ 100 g a.i. ha^-1 and cyantraniliprole 10.26 OD @ 75 g a.i. ha^-1, which recorded 2.83 and 3.18 aphids per shoot, respectively. This was followed by tolfenpyrad 15 EC @ 150 g a.i. ha^-1 (4.86) and thiacloprid 240 SC @ 180 g a.i. ha^-1 (4.94). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]