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Arthropods, 2025, 14(1): 30-40
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The incidence of insect pests on potato crop in Hazara division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Ghalib Sayyid1, Zahid Khan1,2,5, Haroon3, Salman Ahmad4, Mian Sayed Khan5
1College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an 710069, China
2Department of Zoology, Hazara University Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
3College of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
4Department of Zoology, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
5Department of Zoology, University of Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Received 18 July 2024;Accepted 25 August 2024;Published online 25 November 2024;Published 1 March 2025
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Abstract
The research was conducted on insect pests in Hazara division (Mansehra, Abbottabad, Battagram, Haripur, Kohistan, and Tor Ghar) on potato crops under the proposed project. From each district, five fields were selected and major and minor insect pests were collected on potato during the visit. The preserved insects were identified in NARC, and the reported species in 5-meter row were as follows: leafhopper, 0.53±0.40, 0.46±0.26, 0.40±0.17, 0.34±0.15 and 0.32±0.20; flea beetle, 0.58±0.39, 0.57±0.55, 0.33±0.16, 0.45±0.4 and 0.27±0.18; potato tuberworm, 0.68±0.44, 0.65±.60, 0.55±0.52, 0.40±0.28, and 0.28±0.18; black cutworm, 0.60±0.29, 0.58±0.54, 0.33±0.18, 0.32±0.20 and 0.47±0.34; wireworm, 0.62±0.35, 0.55±0.50, 0.53±0.31, 0.50±0.27 and 0.35±0.21; white grub, 0.55±0.33, 0.60±0.53, 0.38±0.26, 0.80±0.60 and 1.14±1.19. The seasonal average of each insect in each district was different in incidence. The difference in the pest population in different districts of the Hazara division is due to the climate conditions, temperature, and incidence of pests.

Keywords insect pests;potato crop;leafhopper;flea beetle;potato tuberworm.


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