HYMENOPTEROUS BIOPESTICIDES AND THEIR PRELIMINARY BIOCONTROL POTENTIAL FROM WESTERN MAHARSHTRA INCLUDING GHATS
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ABSTRACT Hymenpterous parasitoids are biopesticides scattered in the environment which develop on pest insects and kill them. The use of pesticides leads tremendous pressure on various ecosystems causing pest resistance, secondary pest outbreak, pest resurgence, pollution, health hazards and destruction to ecocycles. Hence, biopesticides (parasitoids) play a very crucial role in pest control and keeping environment ecofriendly. A total of 96 hymenopterous parasitoids belonging to 6 prominent families namely, Ichneumonidae, Braconidae, Chalcidae, Eulophidae, Trichogrammatidae and Aphelinidae were recorded parasitizing and killing various insect pests both from plain and forest (Western Ghats) ecosystems. The family Braconidae was dominant over others by the number of individuals (39) parasitizing pest insects. Second dominant family was Ichneumonidae with 36 species followed by Eulophidae, Trichogrammatidae, Chalcidae and Aphelinidae by the numbers 7, 7, 6 and 1 respectively. The results also indicated that 84 species of parasitoids were common, 12 rare and parasitized and killed more than 40 species of insect pests. Key words: Diversity, Hymenoptera, Biopesticides, Biological pest control REFERENCES REFERENCES Chatterjee, S. and Swarup, P.. Apanteles belippae Rohwer (Hyemonptera, Braconidae), a new natural enemy of silkworm, Bombyx mori L. Indian J. Ent., 23, 157 – 158 (1961). Chougale, T. M. and Sathe, T. V. Biodiversity of Ichneumonid flies (Hymenoptera : Ichneumonidae) from Sangli district, Maharashtra.Proc. Nat. Sem. Recent Trends Life. Sci., Belgaum, 19, 81 – 93 (2008). Goulet H and Hubner J. T. (Eds) Hymenoptera of the world; An identification guide to families. Research branch agriculture Canada pp vii+ 668(1993). Gupta V.K. Parasitic hymenoptera research and education during the 1980s In: Advances in parasitic hymenoptera research. Gupta V.K. (Ed) TSAP New York, pp. 1-7. (1988). Noyes, J. S. Catalogue of Chalcidoidea of the world. CD-ROM series, ETI, Amsterdam, Netherlands (1995). Mason, W. R. M. 1981. The polyphyletic nature of Apanteles Forester (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), a phylogeny and reclassification of Microgastrinae. Ent.Soc.Canada.115, 1-147. Sathe, T.V. New records of natural enemies of Exelastis atomosa Walsingham, a Pigeon pea pest in Kolhapur, India. Oikoassay, 3 (1), 17 (1986a). Sathe, T.V. Parasitic complex associated with Chapra mathias Fab. (Lep. : Hesperiidae), a paddy pest in Kolhapur. Geobios New Report, 5, 59 – 60 (1986b). Sathe, T.V. New records of parasitoids of Ber hairy caterpillar Thiocidas postica Wlk. in Kolhapur, India. Sci. & Cult., 13, 185 (1987a). Sathe, T. V. New records of natural enemies of Spodoptera litura (Fab.) in Kolhapur, India. Curr. Sci., 56 (20), 1083-1084 (1987b). Sathe, T. V. Natural enemies of some insect pests of economic importance. Oikoassay, 9, 15-17 (1992). Sathe, T. V. Biodiversity of Braconid pest biocontrol agents from Southern Maharashtra. Flora & Fauna, 10 (2), 149 – 150 (2004). Sathe T. V. Recent trnds in biological pest control Daya Publ. House- Astral international Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi. Pp-1-204 (2014). Sathe, T. V. and Chougale, T. M. Natural enemies of Helicoverpa armigera (Hubn.) on pigeon pea from Western Maharashtra. Indian J. Environ. & Ecoplan., 12 (3), 657- 659 (2006). Sathe, T. V. and Jadhav, A. D. Sericulture and Pest Management.Daya Publ. House, New Delhi. Pp. 1-136 (2001). Sathe, T.V., N. B. Gosawi and Devgire, D. V. Parasitic complex associated with Chapra mathias Fab., a paddy pest in Kolhapur. Geobios new reports., 5, 59-60 (1986). Sathe, T.V., S.A. Inamdar and Dawale, R. K. 2003. Indian pest parasitoids. Daya Publ. House, New Delhi, Pp. 1-145 Sood, A. K., Bhalla, O. P., Sharma, K. C. and Anilkumar, 1995. Seasonal activity of natural enemies of Pieris brassicae (Linnaeus) (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) in cauliflower seed crop ecosystem. J. Biol. Control, 9, 119 – 122. Thompson, W. R. A catalogue of the parasites and predators of insect pests. Sect. I, Part – 5. Imperial Agricultural Bureau, Canada, P. 130 (1944). Thompson, W. R. A catalogue of the parasites and predators of insect pests. Sect. II. Hosts of the Hymenoptera, Agaonidae to Braconidae. Pp. 64 – 65 (1953). Thompson, W. R. A catalogue of the parasites and predators of insect pests. Sect. I, Parasite host catalogue part – 5. Parasites of the Lepidoptera, P. 98 (1954). Towens, H., Towens, M and Gupta, V. K. A Catalogue and reclassification of the Indo-Australian Ichneumonidae. Mem. Amer. Ent. Inst.: 1-522 (1961) Wilkinson, D. S.. A revision of the Indo-Australian species of the genus Apanteles (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) part I. Bull. Ent. Res., 19, 109-146. (1928a); part II. Bull. Ent. Res., 19,109-146. 1928b.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".