Inventorying The Most Common Broccoli Pest Insect and Assessing the Effectiveness of Sticky Traps in Reducing Damage

Abstract

Broccoli (Brassica oleracea L.) belongs to the family Brassicaceae, is a cool-season crop that can be grown year-round under controlled greenhouses conditions. And the results showed that the plant was attacked by many pests causing direct damage to the crops. As cabbage grey aphid (Brevicoryne brassicaL.), cabbage white butterfly(Pieris rapae), great white butterfly (Pieris brassicae), diamondback moths (Plutella xylostella), cabbage cutworm( Agrotis ipsilon),and Grasshopper (Melanoplus sp.), and using sticky traps have been efficient in controlling the density of these pests and can be applied within the integrated pest management, so their use avoids damage to the crop. The traps were superior in reducing the insect’s infected percentage to (4, 0,2,3,3,2 )% respectively, as well as in the effect on the quantity and quality of the yields obtained, where the highest production was recorded, amounting to approximately 1200kg/greenhouse and the absence of the need to use chemical pesticides compared to the control(without traps), where the production reached 700 kg/ greenhouse