Relative abundance of insect pests and pod damage by pod borers in short duration pigeonpea under intercropping systems

A research work to study the richness of arthropod diversity under short duration pigeonpea intercropping systems was carried out at Agricultural Research Farm of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (UP). The faunal composition of insect pests associated with short duration pigeonpea intercropping systems in kharif 2004 and 2005 was of eight orders viz., Orthoptera, Homoptera, Thysanoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Coleoptera. One bird pest of order Psittaciformes was also recorded. The twenty species of insect pests and one bird pest species were recorded infesting short duration pigeonpea under intercropping systems.