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Efficacy of PB Ropes (Synthetic Sex Pheromone) against Pink Bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders) (Lepidoptera: Gelichidae), Destructive Cotton Pest, in different Ecological Zones of Punjab, Pakistan

Efficacy of PB Ropes (Synthetic Sex Pheromone) against Pink Bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders) (Lepidoptera: Gelichidae), Destructive Cotton Pest, in different Ecological Zones of Punjab, Pakistan

Syed Ismat Hussain1, Muhammad Ramzan Asi1, Habbib Anwar1, Faqeer Ahmad1, Ateeq ur Rehman2*, Muhammad Shahid3, Syed Atif Hasan Naqvi2*, Ummad ud Din Umar2, Muhammad Asif Zulfiqar4, Memuna Ijaz1 and Hafiz Usman Shakir1

1Govt. of Punjab Agriculture Department Pest Warning and Quality Control of Pesticides, Punjab, Pakistan; 2Department of Plant Pathology, FAS and T, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan; 3Plant Pathology Research Institute, Ayub Agricultural Research Institute, Faisalabad, Pakistan; 4PARC, Research and Training Station, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan.

 
*Correspondence | Ateeq ur Rehman and Syed Atif Hasan Naqvi, Department of Plant Pathology, FAS and T, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan; Email: ateequrrehman@bzu.edu.pk, atifhasanshah@hotmail.com

Figure 1 (A-G):

Pink bollworm moth catches in pheromone traps in control plots and PB-rope plots of cotton in Mailsi, Burewala, Vehari, Rajanpur, Jampur, Rojhan and Mianwali. 

Figure 2(A-N):

Rosette flower and boll damage percentage by pink bollworm in control and PB rope plots of cotton in Mailsi, Burewala, Vehari, Rajanpur, Jampur, Rojhan and Mianwali.

Figure 3:

Left over boll damage percentage by P. gossypiella larvae in control and PB-rope plots of cotton in different Tehsils of Punjab.

Figure 4:

Yield comparison in PB rope plots and control plots in different Tehsils of Punjab. 

Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Research

December

Vol.36, Iss. 4, Pages 297-403

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