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| Title: | New record of Baculovirus in Buzura suppressaria Guen. in India |
| Authors: | Mukhopadhyay, A
De, D
Sarker, M
Bambawale, O M |
| Keywords: | Buzura suppressaria
Looper caterpillar
Baculovirus
Tea plantations
Darjeeling |
| Issue Date: | Oct-2007 |
| Publisher: | CSIR |
| IPC Code: | Int. cl.8— A01P 15/00 |
| Abstract: | The looper caterpillar, Buzura suppressaria
Guen. is one of the
major defoliating pests of tea plantations of North-East
India, causing heavy crop losses. The pest is of endemic nature,
with four to five broods, each of 50-60 days duration in a year. Maximum damage
takes place during pre-monsoon period (March to June) followed by a reduction in
monsoon months and again a slow pickup during the winter months. A large-scale
mortality of B. suppressaria
is known during rainy season since many years in the tea plantations of the
Darjeeling
foothills. Natural mortality of the pest, reported earlier, was suspected to be
due to bacterial infection only but our studies have confirmed that it can also be due to Baculovirus, which is being reported from Darjeeling Terai of India for the first time. |
| Page(s): | 375-376 |
| ISSN: | 0975-1092 (Online); 0972-592X (Print) |
| Source: | NPR Vol.6(5) [September-October 2007]
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