http://www.jnkvv.nic.in/IPM%20project/insect-groundnut.html

Biological Control

• Spray A-NPV (2X 10^5 PIB/I) and Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt).
• Release of Bracon hebetor @ 5000/ha. two times at 7-10 days interval.
• Conserve dominant predators like Coccinella sp. and Minochilus sexmaculata and parasitoids like Chelonus spp.
• Conserve the bio control population of spiders, long horned grasshoppers, praying mantis, robar fly, ants, green lace wing, damsel flies/dragon flies, flower bugs, shield bugs, lady bird beetles, ground beetle, predatory cricket, earwig, braconids, trichogrammatids, NPV, green muscular fungus.
• Use 5% neem seed kernel extract on need basis.
• Inter cropping with pigeon pea, mung bean and soybean provides increase in population of spiders.
• Population of coccinellids is higher on groundnut with maize, mung bean and soybean and Chrysoperla spp. is higher with maize and soybean intercrops.