ISSN : 0975-3710
EISSN : 0975-9107
S.S. GAMIT1*, KAHKASHAN WALI2, C.B. VARMA3
1Department of Agriculture Entomology, BA College of Agriculture, Anand Agricultural University, Anand, 388110, Gujarat, India
2Department of Agriculture Entomology, BA College of Agriculture, Anand Agricultural University, Anand, 388110, Gujarat, India
3College of Agriculture, Vaso, 387230, Anand Agricultural University, Anand, 388110, Gujarat, India
* Corresponding Author : swati.gamit2611@gmail.com
Received : 10-01-2022 Accepted : 28-01-2022 Published : 30-01-2022
Volume : 14 Issue : 1 Pages : 11046 - 11048
Int J Agr Sci 14.1 (2022):11046-11048
Keywords : False chinch bug, Life cycle, Seasonal incidence, Nature of damage
Academic Editor : Dr Sneh Gautam
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to Department of Agriculture Entomology, BA College of Agriculture, Anand Agricultural University, Anand, 388110, Gujarat, India. Authors are also thankful to College of Agriculture, Vaso, 387230, Anand Agricultural University, Anand, 388110, Gujarat, India
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed
Nysius is a genus of false chinch bugs in the family Lygaeidae. False chinch bug (FCB), Nysius sp. (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae) is a highly polyphagous and occasional pest in the world, where it may become an emerging pest. Their capabilities to give rise to outbreaks, mainly during warm and dry periods, make the insect a major pest in a number of countries. It has a smaller size with greyish-brown coloration and transparent wings. FCB has incomplete metamorphosis. It causes damage by using piercing-sucking mouthparts; both nymph and adult of FCB puncture stems, foliage, and fruits then sucking cell sap from it. FCB causes an average of 10-90 % seed yield loss in agricultural crops. For management purposes cultural practices viz., use of resistant cultivars, deep ploughing, sprinkler irrigation, and removal of alternate weed hosts should be adopted; mechanical practices viz., boll weevil traps with mustard oil compounds, yellow sticky trap, and blue sticky trap are used; physical control by using low radio frequency level. Predators like, big-eyed bugs, lynx spiders, jumping spiders, sphecid, chrysidid, birds, and parasitoids like Telenomus ovivorus, Phasia occidentis are used for biological control to mitigate infestations in the field. And the chemicals like thiamethoxam, profenophos, cypermethrin, Spinosad, Lambda-cyhalothrin, imidacloprid caused significant FCB mortality
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