Ramakant Mishra , Mukhtar Ahmad , Mohammad Faisal

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Mukhtar Ahmad , Manoj Kumar , Ramakant Mishra

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Larvae of three geometrid species including Hyposidera talaca, Ectropis bhurmitra and Pingasa chlora were recorded for the first time as defoliators of Paulownia fortunei in India. These were found causing multiple defoliation to the plants. Hyposidera talaca was found to be a major defoliating pest of P. fortunei causing high level infestation while E. bhurmitra and P. chlora were recroded as minor pests.

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Mukhtar Ahmad , Ramakant Mishra , M. D. Jamal Ahmad , Rajiv Pandey

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Defoliating capability of poplar defoliator, Clostera cupreata was studied by exposing measured leaf to different larval instars. Females were found to defoliate more as 0.99, 8.82, 12.65,22.13, and 103.88 cm² ofleafwas consumed by a larva from first to fifth ins tar respectively, whereas a male larva was able to feed 0.96, 5.99, 7.67, 19.30 and 48.63 cm² of poplar foliage from first to fifth instar respectively. Relationship between food consumption and growth rate of larva was established using various parameters including growth rate, relative growth rate, consumption rate, consumption index, and efficiency of conversion of ingested food.

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Mukhtar Ahmad , Ramakant Mishra , Jamal Ahmad

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Poplars in India are hosting over 132 insect species belonging to 9 important insect orders and 42 families. They include defoliators, sap suckers, leaf miners, stern and ischolar_main borers, shoot borers etc. Many of them are polyphagous and visit poplar occasionally while few are potential pests. They exert damaging pressure to the Poplars in nursery as well as in plantation and required to be controlled with different management practices.

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