Vijay Kumar, Hemant Swami, S. Ramesh Babu, B. Upadhayay, S.S. Lakhawat and Davendra Jain
Abstract
The present investigation was carried out during Kharif season 2021-22 and 2022-23 in Udaipur district in Southern Rajasthan. The aim of the survey is to record the diversity of different species of prevailing predators on the soybean crops ecosystem. The survey on the diversity of predatory bugs was carried out under the agro-climatic conditions of Udaipur, Rajasthan. The predatory bugs of soybean crop during the Kharif seasons, 2021-22 and 2022-23 were found such as pentatomid, reduviid, mirid and anthocorid. The dominant predatory bugs of soybean crops were observed as Pentatomidae family bugs with the maximum mean and relative density from all surveyed locations. While the population of anthocorid bugs was found minimum.