EFFICACY OF DIOFENOLAN ON REPRODUCTIVE PERIODS IN PERICALLIA RICINI FAB. (LEPIDOPTERA: ARCTIIDAE)

Abstract

The female treated with any concentration of the diofenolan through food and significantly prolonged preoviposition (P<0.05) and in response to
treatment with different concentrations of this insecticide applied as above, this period varied from 3.0 to 3.89 days and appeared to prolonged
concentration but, as per statistical analysis, the concentrations from 0.0001% to 0.50% affecting this period identifically (P<0.05), caused significantly less prolongation as compared the 1.0 percent concentration (P<0.05).