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Spider Fauna in the Rice Ecosystem of Jammu


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1 Central Integrated Pest Management Centre, Abhinandan Bhawan, P.H. Road, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India
2 Central Integrated Pest Management Centre, 73 B/B, Gandhinagar, Jammu, Jammu & Kashmir, India
3 Directorate of Plant Protection, Quarantine and Storage, N.H. IV, Faridabad, Haryana, India
 

Twenty species or spiders were observed in the rice ecosystem in Jammu region. The predominantly common species were under the genera Tetragnatha, Neoscona, Oxyopes, Phidippus and Pardosa. Among these, the spider population was noticed to increase graduatlywith the growth of rice plants and almost doubled from August to September.

Keywords

Population Abundance, Rice Ecosystem, Spider Fauna.
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J. N. Thakur
Central Integrated Pest Management Centre, Abhinandan Bhawan, P.H. Road, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India
J. P. Singh
Central Integrated Pest Management Centre, 73 B/B, Gandhinagar, Jammu, Jammu & Kashmir, India
O. P. Verma
Central Integrated Pest Management Centre, 73 B/B, Gandhinagar, Jammu, Jammu & Kashmir, India
M. C. Diwakar
Directorate of Plant Protection, Quarantine and Storage, N.H. IV, Faridabad, Haryana, India

Abstract


Twenty species or spiders were observed in the rice ecosystem in Jammu region. The predominantly common species were under the genera Tetragnatha, Neoscona, Oxyopes, Phidippus and Pardosa. Among these, the spider population was noticed to increase graduatlywith the growth of rice plants and almost doubled from August to September.

Keywords


Population Abundance, Rice Ecosystem, Spider Fauna.