Impact of Pesticides on Diversity and Abundance of Predatory Arthropods in Rice Ecosystem

Table 2

Effect of insecticide and non-insecticide treatment against general predators during the kharif season in the rice ecosystem.

Treatments	Kharif 2018				Kharif 2019
	V	R	H	Average	V	R	H	Average
T1	40.76 ± 6.35	27.57 ± 4.06	14.95 ± 5.04	27.76	39.29 ± 8.94	21.38 ± 5.82	11.81 ± 3.64	24.16
T2	34.14 ± 5.01	20.14 ± 2.71	9.48 ± 3.55	21.25	26.05 ± 7.50	13.33 ± 3.47	7.62 ± 2.52	15.67
Fcal	0.913	0.985	0.206		0.083	1.643	5.255
t value	0.818	1.521	0.888		1.134	0.1.187	0.947
= 0.05	0.418^NS	0.136^NS	0.380^NS		0.264^NS	0.242^NS	0.349^NS
Df	40	40	40		40	40	40

“V” = vegetative; “R” = reproductive; “AH” = after harvesting; T₁ = control field (without insecticide); T₂ = insecticide treated field, NS = Non-significant.