STUDIES ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SELECTED TRAPS FOR INSECTS DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTION IN TEHSIL BAFFA PAKHAL, MANSEHRA PAKISTAN
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Coleoptera, Insect, Trap, Light trap, Pit fall
Abstract
The current study aimed to determine how well the Pit Fall, Flight Interception, and Light Trapping systems in Tehsil Baffa Pakhal, District Mansehra KP, affected the distribution and diversity of insects. Insect trapping surveys were conducted from June 2022 to September 2022. Three distinct trapping systems were implemented in four specific locations: Hazara University, Baffa, Dhodial, and Shinkiari. Tehsil Pakhal, District Mansehra, is the earliest published report on the use of trapping systems for insect studies. A total of 21 genera, 26 species, and 5 families were identified from a total of 553 specimens. Anomala bengalensis (Blanchard, 1851), Adoretus ictericus (Laporte, 1840), Adalia decempunctata (Linnaeus, 1758), Parcoblatta Americana (Scudder, 1900), Apis mellifera (Linnaeus, 1758), Apis florea (Fabricus, 1787), Copris repertus(Walker, 1858), Anegleis cardoni (Say, 1824) , Camponotus vagus (Scopoli, 1763), Pheropsophus africanus (Dejean, 1825), Eurydema ornate (Linnaeus, 1758), Musca domestica (Linnaeus, 1758), Mylabris pustulata (Thunberg, 1821), Mylabris phalerata (Pallas, 1781), Scarities subterraneus (Fabricius, 1775), Hybosorus orientalis (Westwoo, 1845), Stromatium barbatum (Fabricius, 1775), Polistes olivaceus (DeGeer, 1773), Heteronychus artor(Fabricius, 1775), Polistes rothneyi (Cameron, 1900), Polistini canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758), Polistes wattii (Cameron, 1900), Vespa tropica (Linnaeus, 1758), Vespa oreintalis (Linnaeus, 1771), Gryllotalpa orientalus (Burmeister, 1838) and Junonia coenia (Hubner, 1822) were confined during the current study. In terms of the total number of specimens, the orders Coleoptera and Hymenoptera emerged as the most abundant. whereas, the orders Diptera, Hemiptera, Lepidoptera, and Orthoptera produced less specimens overall. The results showed that the flight interception trap was more effective than the pit fall and light traps, but the light trap was less effective than the flight interception trap. It is possible to use these trapping methods for pest management.
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Bilal Ahmad
Department of Zoology Hazara University Mansehra Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan,
Jalander Shah
Department of Zoology, University of Science and Technology Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Fazal Amin
Department of Zoology, University of Science and Technology Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Muhammad Goher Zaman
Department of Zoology, Government Post Graduate College Karak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Israr Ahmad
Department of Zoology, University of Science and Technology Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Saqib Ullah Qureshi
Department of Zoology, University of Science and Technology Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan