Spider Fauna in the Rice Ecosystem of Jammu

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Authors

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

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18311/jbc/1995/7603

Keywords:

Population Abundance, Rice Ecosystem, Spider Fauna.

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.