Vol. 7, Issue 9, Part I (2025)

The results of field experiment indicated that a total of nine different pests were recorded feeding and damaging the snake gourd crop during Kharif 2024-25. They include snake gourd semilooper, Anadevidia peponis (Fabricius), pumpkin caterpillar, Diaphania indica (Saunders), leaf miner, Liriomyza sativae (Blanchard), pumpkin beetles, Aulacophora foveicollis (Lucas), Aulacophora intermedia (Jacoby), melon fruit fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae (Coquillett), Aphid, Aphis gossypii (Glover), Myzus persicae (Sulzer), white fly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius), brown stink bug, Coridius brunneus (Thunberg) and leaf footed bug, Leptoglossus phyllopus (Linneaus). Aphid population showed a significant positive correlation with RH-I (r = 0.507*), non-significant positive correlation with T_min (r = 0.166), RH-II (r = 0.166) and BSS (r = 0.086) and non-significant negative correlation with T_max (r = -0.080), wind speed (r = -0.208) and rainfall (r = -0.028). White fly showed non-significant positive correlation with T_max,T_min, RH-I, RH-II and BSS (r = 0.054, 0.197, 0.245, 0.083 and 0.185), whereas, snake gourd semilooper, pumpkin caterpillar and melon fruit fly exhibited non-significant positive correlation with T_max,T_min, RH-I and BSS (r = 0.245, 0.077, 0.136 and 0.306; r = 0.187, 0.175, 0.152 and 0.221; r = 0.198, 0.138, 0.261 and 0.295). Leaf miner showed a highly significant positive correlation with T_max (r = 0.804**) and bright sunshine hours (r = 0.711**), whereas, highly significant negative correlation was observed with RH-II (r = -0.718**) and wind speed (r = -0.664**). Pumpkin beetle exhibited a highly significant positive correlation with RH-II (r = 0.652**) and wind speed (r = 0.629**) and a significant positive correlation with T_min (r = 0.584*).