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POPULATION TRENDS OF RICE GREEN LEAFHOPPERS IN CAUVERY DELTA ZONE OF TAMIL NADU

Volume : 84
Issue: Apr-apr
Pages: 196 - 201
Published: July 05, 2023
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Abstract


Peak occurrence of green leafhoppers (GLH) was observed during September and October months of the three years 1991 93. The species composition in light-trap and field collections revealed that Nephotettix virescens dominated over N. nigropictus. The seasonal incidence of GLH in the three defined seasons of Cauvery Delta Zone revealed that early planting of the crop in Kuruval season i... July 25 recorded low incidence of GLH than the late planted crop. The early as well as late planting of samba and thaladi season was susceptible to GLH. Among the weather factors. relative humidity and minimum temperature influenced the pest population.

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© The Author(s), 2025. 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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Green leafhopper species rice season field population light-trap correlation regression
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