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Damage potential and seasonality of the sapodilla bud borer Anarsia achrasella (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) in India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

P.D. Kamala Jayanthi ,
Abraham Verghese ,
Honnamma Rani  and
D.K. Nagaraju
P.D. Kamala Jayanthi*
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Hesseraghatta Lake PO, Bangalore, 560089, India
Abraham Verghese
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Hesseraghatta Lake PO, Bangalore, 560089, India
Honnamma Rani
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Hesseraghatta Lake PO, Bangalore, 560089, India
D.K. Nagaraju
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Hesseraghatta Lake PO, Bangalore, 560089, India
*
*E-mail: jaiinsect@yahoo.co.in
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Abstract

The gelechid bud borer Anarsia achrasella (Latreille) has become an increasingly serious pest of sapodilla Manilkara zapota Van Royen in India. The objective of the present study was to estimate the pest damage potential and determine the influence of abiotic factors and plant phenology on the pest incidence. The results indicate that each larva of A. achrasella could damage up to 36.9–46.6 buds before reaching pupation. Correlation analysis indicates that the pest incidence is not influenced by plant phenology and that the effect of abiotic factors is minimal. Of all weather parameters studied, only minimum temperature and wind speed correlated significantly with bud borer infestation. The linear and non-linear analyses showed that, in the case of minimum temperature, polynomial model order (2) Y=0.4108x2−11.95x+92.329 was found to explain 46% of the variability in bud borer incidence. However, in the case of wind speed, none of the tried models could explain variability in A. achrasella incidence beyond 53%. The implications of these results are discussed.

Keywords

Anarsia achrasellaManilkara zapotapest incidenceplant phenologybiotic and abiotic factors
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Research Article
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International Journal of Tropical Insect Science , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , June 2006 , pp. 86 - 91
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Copyright © ICIPE 2006

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