About Lesson
Control measures for innovative control method
- Insect Attractants:
- Attractants are those chemicals bringing positive response by insects through olfactory stimulation that orient them to the source of food, host plants, or opposite sexes.
- Insect Repellents:
- Substances that prevent damage by making food or living condition unattractive for the pests are known as insect repellents.
- Insect repellents are broadly categorized as physical and chemical repellents.
- Antifeedants:
- Antifeedants are those chemicals that inhibit feeding when applied or present in plants and in its absence, insects would feed.
- Triazenes: It is non-toxic to insects but inhibit feeding in chewing insects like caterpillars.
- Organotins: Antifeedant for leaves feeding insects.
- Carbomates: Antifeedant for leaves feeding insects. baygon acts as a systemic antifeedant to the cotton boll worm.