Evaluation of Coloured Sticky Traps for Monitoring the Population of Budfly, Dasyneura lini on Linseed Crop

A field study was conducted at Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya Raipur, Chhattisgarh Rabi 2022-23 and 2023-24 to evaluate the use of different coloured sticky traps to assess the colour magnestism of budfly infecting linseed. The attractiveness of nine colour yellow, light yellow, blue, light blue, white, green, grey, pink, orange, brown, black and transparent (check) were evaluated during 2022-23 and 2023-24. Among the colour sticky traps average budfly attracted were maximum in the yellow coloured sticky traps during both the seasons with the cumulative value of 14.62 budfly/trap. The highest number of budfly trapped in yellow-coloured sticky trap over the crop growth period than other sticky traps. Lowest number of budfly catches were recorded in black traps in this experiment.