Comparative efficacies of insecticides and botanicals against rice gall midge, Orseolia oryzae (Wood-Mason) and their effect on the parasitoid Platygaster oryzae in rice ecosystem of Odisha, India

A field experiment was carried out to determine the comparative efficacy of newer insecticides with botanical insecticides, viz., Chlorantraniliprole 0.4G @ 10 kg ha-1, Fipronil 5 SC @ 1500 ml ha-1, Acephate 95 SG @ 750 g ha-1, Lambda cyhalothrin 4.9 CS @ 550 ml ha-1, Thiamethoxam 25 WG @ 150 g ha-1 @ Carbofuran 3 CG @ 30 kg ha-1, Carbosulfan 25 EC @ 875 ml ha-1, Cedarwood oil @ 1000 ml ha-1, Azadirachtin 0.03 EC @ 2500 ml ha-1, applied at 20 and 35 DAT, against rice gall midge, Orseolia oryzae (Wood-Mason) in rice during kharif, 2019 and 2020. All the treatments were effective for gall midge. Lambda cyhalothrin 4.9 CS @ 550 ml ha-1 was significantly superior (>80% reduction over control) for gall midge management and grain yield was 4.75 t ha-1. Both botanical and untreated plots had more number of parasitized gall midge (40- 53.3%) than other chemical treated plots.