The
field experiment was conducted at Research Farm of the Department of
Agricultural Entomology, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani,
Dist. Parbhani (M.S.) during the year rabi 2020-21 and 2021-22. The
studies on the seasonal incidence during rabi 2020-21 and 2021-22
revealed that the population of safflower aphid started from 50th MW
and 51th MW during rabi 2020-21 and rabi 2021-22,
respectively. The peak of the safflower aphid population was noticed on 6th
MW and 5th MW in both the seasons, respectively. The population of
natural enemies viz., coccinellids and Chrysoperla observed in 51th
and 1st MW during rabi 2020-21 and in 52th and 1st
MW during rabi 2021-22, respectively. However, the peak coccinellids
activity was noticed during 6th and 5th MW and that of Chrysoperla
was observed during 6th and 5th MW of rabi 2020-21
and 2021-22, respectively.
Non-significant
negative correlation was observed between maximum temperature, minimum temperature, morning relative humidity,
rainfall and bright sunshine hours with the aphid population during the year
2020-21 and the correlation coefficient was -0.414, -0.341, -0.067, -0.365 and
-0.036, respectively. Whereas, aphid population was positively non-significant
(0.105) with the evening relative humidity.
During
the year 2021-22, the correlations of aphid population with maximum and minimum temperature were
significantly negative with correlation coefficients of -0.513* and -0.619**,
respectively whereas non-significant positive correlations between morning relative humidity (0.368), evening relative humidity (0.262), rainfall
(0.145) and bright sunshine hours (0.242).
There
was non-significant negative correlation between maximum temperature, minimum temperature, morning relative humidity,
rainfall and bright sunshine hours with the coccinellids population during first
season 2020-21. Whereas, correlation of coccinellids population
was positively non-significant (0.124) with the evening
relative humidity. The correlations of coccinellids population
with maximum and minimum temperature, morning relative humidity,
evening relative humidity and rainfall were
negatively non-significant during the year 2021-22 whereas non-significant
positive correlation with bright sunshine hours (0.303).
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