Dr. M. R. DabhiNeelam A. Singh2022-05-122022-05-122020https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810184685Investigations on “Life table, feeding potential and relative toxicity of insecticides to ladybird beetle, Cheilomenes sexmaculata (Fabricius) were carried out at Department of Agricultural Entomology, B. A. College of Agriculture, Anand Agricultural University, Anand (Gujarat) during the year 2019-20. The feeding potential of the predator was calculated on four hosts i.e., mustard aphid, Lipaphis erysimi (Kaltenbach), cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii (Glover), maize aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis (Fitch) and cowpea aphid, Aphis craccivora (Koch). A total of nine insecticides, viz.; acetamiprid (0.006%), buprofezin (0.05%), fipronil (0.01%), flonicamid (0.015%), imidacloprid (0.089%), spinosad (0.0135%), spiromesifen (0.0229%), thiacloprid (0.013%) and thiamethoxam (0.01%) were evaluated.EnglishThesis