@article{MIRZA ABDUL QAYYUM_2018, title={INVESTIGATING LETHAL EFFECT OF DIFFERENT BOTANICALS AGAINST OXYCARENUS LAETUS KIRBY UNDER LABORATORY CONDITIONS}, volume={8}, url={https://updatepublishing.com/journal/index.php/imrj/article/view/3618}, DOI={10.25081/imrj.2018.v8.3618}, abstractNote={<p>For last few years, dusky cotton bug, <em>Oxycarenus laetus</em> (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae) has become an emerging pest of cotton crop threatening cotton production in Pakistan. Onset of insecticidal resistance demands the use the alternate approaches for the control of <em>O. laetus</em>. Plant-based botanicals have the potential to suppress <em>O. laetus</em> at different concentrations. The findings of present study showed that highest mortality (53.13%, 70.83% and 96.91%) of <em>O. leatus </em>was recorded at 1.5%, 2.5% and 5% concentrations after 72h of treatment with <em>N. tabacum</em>. However, <em>O. sanctum</em> harbored lowest mortality (38.10%, 37.50% and 52.91%) at all tested concentrations. Consequently, <em>Nicotiana tabacum </em>was proved as exhibiting competent insecticidal properties for the control of <em>O. laetus</em>.</p>}, journal={International Multidisciplinary Research Journal}, author={MIRZA ABDUL QAYYUM, MUHAMMAD ASAD SALEEM, JAVARIA NAZIR,}, year={2018}, month={Apr.}, pages={22–25} }