EFFECTS OF WEATHER PARAMETERS ON INCIDENCE OF SUCKING PESTS AND THEIR PREDATORS ON COTTON (Gossypium hirsutum L.) | PLANT CELL BIOTECHNOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The current study was designed to assess the impact of environmental factors (wind speed, temperature, and humidity) on various sucking insect predators in the Multan region of Pakistan. The study took place between 2014 and 2016, during the cotton growing season. Throughout the cropping season, the number of larvae, adults of sucking pests such as thrips, dusky bugs, white fly, Jassid, and their predators (Argiope, Geocoris, Chrysoperla) were counted. Readings of wind speed, temperature, and humidity were obtained from an internet source and checked by the meteorological department. The data was analysed and the importance of these parameters was determined using one-way ANOVA. Wind speed, temperature, and humidity had no effect on the eggs and adults of thrips, dusky bug, Jassid, and white fly. Environmental factors seemed to have less of an effect on these pests in the study region. The current findings revealed that environmental factors had no effect on sucking pest eggs or adults.

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