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VOL. 9, ISSUE 5 (2024)
Study of entomofauna associated with the snow view apple orchard of Ramgarh Nainital district, Uttarakhand, India
Authors
Neha Bora, Himanshu Pande, Divya Pangtey, Isha Chandra
Abstract
Insects are the most diverse and important group of animals, belonging
to the class Insecta, because of the huge diversity of insects, the phylum
Arthropoda is considered as largest phylum in all. The insect diversity is
important, because of their great contributions in nature, so primarily our
study aims to reveal the data of the insects present in an orchard and to study
their taxonomical identification and exploration of their diversity. The
collection of the insect samples was done in the Apple orchard of Ramgarh
(Nainital), by sweep netting and hand-picking methods, we used various published
pieces of literature and books for identification purposes, basically total of
16 insect species from the 13 families and 6 orders are reported from the
orchard, the maximum number of individuals were reported from the Order
Coleoptera and also the dominant species was the Coccinella septmepunctata,
the second dominant order is Hemiptera, which have a maximum number of families
among all the orders. By identifying the insect species, their ecological
importance and behavioural study of an insect becomes easy to observe, so in
this paper we just tried to identify and study the diversity, may this could be
helpful for future researchers. The total insect orders observed in orchards
were the Coleopterans, Lepidopterans, Hemipterans, Orthopterans, Dipterans and
Hymenopterans.
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Pages:41-43
How to cite this article:
Neha Bora, Himanshu Pande, Divya Pangtey, Isha Chandra "Study of entomofauna associated with the snow view apple orchard of Ramgarh Nainital district, Uttarakhand, India". International Journal of Entomology Research, Vol 9, Issue 5, 2024, Pages 41-43
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