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Bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria ) is one of the most important tropic vegetable crop grown world wide belongs to family cucurbiceae prone to wide range of insect and non insect pests includes pumpkin beetle, fruit fly, striped cucurbit beetle, twelve spotted cucumber beetles, spider mites, melon aphids, squash borer, squash bug and leaf minors etc. Population build-up of, A. foveicollis Lucas on calabash were studied at Instuctional farm, School of Agriculture, Lovely Professional University, Phgawara, Jalandhar (Punjab). During the investigation it was observed that red pumpkin beetle start infesting the crop from 8thSW with mean population 0.40 and it reach at peak level during 15th SW with mean population of 6.22. During the study of application of different chemicals against A. foveicollis, the result revealed that Thiamethoxam 25% WG @ 4g/lit) is the best one among all the treatments and reduced the population of A. foveicollisup to 90% followed by Treatment T1 (Lambda Cyhalothrin 4.9% CS@1ml/lit).

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