Influence of Biotic and Abiotic Factors on Mulberry Mealybug, Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green) during the Summer Season

Mashooque Ali Laghari; Asif Ali Kaleri; Arif Hussain Kaleri; Anum Mehmood; Feroz Gul Nizamani; Raza Ali Rind; Aamir Ali Khokhar; Uzair Khokhar; Muhammad Rafique Rind; Abdul Latif Nizamani  and Mir Muhammad Nizamani

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Influence of Biotic and Abiotic Factors on Mulberry Mealybug, Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green) during the Summer Season

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Indian Journal of Science and Technology

DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2019/v12i24/145002

Year: 2019, Volume: 12, Issue: 24, Pages: 1-5

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Influence of Biotic and Abiotic Factors on Mulberry Mealybug, Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green) during the Summer Season

Mashooque Ali Laghari¹, Asif Ali Kaleri², Arif Hussain Kaleri³, Anum Mehmood³, Feroz Gul Nizamani⁴, Raza Ali Rind⁴, Aamir Ali Khokhar³, Uzair Khokhar¹, Muhammad Rafique Rind⁵, Abdul Latif Nizamani⁶ and Mir Muhammad Nizamani^3*

¹Department of Entomology, Faculty of Crop Protection, Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam, Pakistan.
² Department of Agronomy. Faculty of Crop Production, Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam, Pakistan; asifkaleri@ yahoo.com, [email protected]
³Key Laboratory of Tropical Biological Resources of Ministry of Education, School of Life and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China; [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
⁴ Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics Faculty of Crop Production, Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam, Pakistan; [email protected], [email protected]
⁵ Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Crop Production, Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, Pakistan; [email protected]
⁶ Agricultural Education Extension, Agricultural Social Sciences, Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, Pakistan

*Author for correspondence
Mir Muhammad Nizamani
Key Laboratory of Tropical Biological Resources of Ministry of Education, School of Life and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China.
Email: [email protected]

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Abstract

Objectives: The present study was carried out to investigate the biology of Maconellicoccus hirsutus on Alba variety of mulberry under laboratory conditions and comparative infestation of M. hirsutus on Alba and purple varieties of mulberry under field conditions. Methods/Statistical Analysis: Mean and standard error was used to describe the results. Findings: The results indicated that the fecundity of M. hirsutus varied from 221 to 232 varied eggs per female. The pest completed its life cycle in 29.08 to 32.51 days. The infestation of M. hirsutus on different mulberry variety showed that purple variety was resistant than Alba variety with pest population of 8.43 ± 0.33 mealybugs per 10 cm twig compared with 9.73 ± 0.93 mealybugs on Alba variety. Application/Improvements: M. hirsutus is a serious polyphagous pest insect of mulberry and other plants. Therefore, it is suggested that detailed studies on population dynamics, natural enemies and population management of this mealybug should be carried out under agroecological conditions of Sindh, Pakistan.

Keywords: Biotic and Abiotic, Maconellicoccus hirsutus, Mulberry Mealybug