Insect Pests of Fruits, Plantation, Medicinal & Aromatic Crops

Survey

• Regular survey activity is necessary for successful surveillance programmes. Surveys may be qualitative or quantitative.
  
• Qualitative survey aims at pest detection, employed with newly introduced pests and often precedes quantitative survey.
  
• Quantitative survey attempts to define numerically the abundance of an insect population in time and space; useful for future population detection and assessment of damage potential.