See how insect are destroying your paddy
field .
Read this blog and get idea to protect your field.
Let's know about some of friendly insects in paddy.
- Spider
- Flies
- Wasp
- Dragonflies
- Lady beetle
- Plant bug
- Frog
- Water bug
- Small fish
- Beetle
- Wolf spider feed on leafhoppers.
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Figure : 2
In figure number 2 we can see clearly that spider is feeding on insect.
- The adult and larvae of ladybird beetles feed on eggs, nymph, and adult of rice green leaf hoppers.
- Small fish present in paddy field feed on weed grown in paddy field and egg present in water.
Companion or friend of paddy plant.
- Marigold
- Green gram
- Keshari
- Merriam white, Aglnnovators(Australian oil seed)
- Sesames
- Sunflower
Marigold
In most of place people plant marigold on the bunds of paddy field. These marigold bloom at the time of paddy bloom season. Most of pollinating agent like wasp, bee 🐝 are attracted towards attractive colour of marigold flower and their activities help in pollination of rice although we know rice is self pollinated crops but also upto some extent pollinating agent helps in the rice pollination.
Some harmful insects stay away from field because of smell of marigold. Some predators are attracted to the field due to flower which is good for paddy fields.
Pulses crop and oil producing crops
Mostly people plant these crops on the bund of field to gain more profit by utilizing small free space, some follow this way of farming to protect their main crops from domestic animals. These companion crops help in nitrogen fixation from atmosphere and this nitrogen are utilized by our paddy crops.
