Insect Pest Spectrum of Poplar in India

Abstract

Poplars in India are hosting over 132 insect species belonging to 9 important insect orders and 42 families. They include defoliators, sap suckers, leaf miners, stern and root borers, shoot borers etc. Many of them are polyphagous and visit poplar occasionally while few are potential pests. They exert damaging pressure to the Poplars in nursery as well as in plantation and required to be controlled with different management practices.