2024, Vol. 7, Special Issue 10

author(s)
Varnekar Shivanjali V, Mule RS, Karmarkar MS, Chavan VG, Kulkarni MM, Jalgaonkar VN, Kumud V Naik, Vedantika V Jadhav, Patil SP and Gurav SS

abstract
The studies on seasonal incidence of shoot and fruit borer, Earias spp. on okra var. Konkan bhendi revealed that percent shoot and fruit infestation was ranged from 2.0 to 6.0 and 6.56 to 27.57 percent, respectively. The highest shoot infestation of 6.0 percent was observed in 12^th SMW corresponding to 6^th week after sowing, whereas, the fruit infestation reached at its peak (27.57 percent) in 18^th SMW corresponding to 12^th week after sowing. The shoot infestation exhibited negative correlation with maximum temperature (-0.202), minimum temperature (-0.256), afternoon relative humidity (-0.018), wind speed (-0.160), rainfall (-0.079) and bright sunshine hours (-0.109), while non-significant positive correlation with morning relative humidity (0.318). Fruit infestation showed highly significant positive correlation with minimum temperature (0.812), afternoon relative humidity (0.793) and wind speed (0.758) and positive correlation with rainfall (0.278), whereas, it exhibited significant negative correlation with maximum temperature (-0.414) and negative correlation with morning relative humidity (-0.230) and bright sunshine hours (-0.155).