Volume : 4, Issue : 10, October - 2015

Insects and mites infesting plants used in unani system of medicines with assessing bioefficacy of some green pesticides towards control of a pest species , Ferrisia virgata, Homoptera:Pseucoccidae.

Zoha Ahmed, S. K. Gupta, N. Debnath

Abstract :

<p>This paper reports 8 species of Insects and 22 species of mites infesting plants used in unani system of medicine. The results of the bio-efficacy of 3 green pesticides along with a conventional synthetic pyrethroid compound are also included highlighting good performance of the extracts of Pongamia pinnata and Butea monosperma.</p>