Litchi is an important subtropical evergreen fruit crop grown in Nepal, which have high nutritive value and refreshing taste. The Litchi growers are experiencing severe loss every year with the damage caused by several insect pests. Among them fruit and shoot borer Conopomorpha sinensis Bradley (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) is the one of the important insect pest. Experiments were conducted at RARS Tarahara on existing litchi orchard in RCBD design with four replication and five insecticides (Azadiractin, Chlorantraniliprole, Flubendiamide, Lambda cyhalothrin, and Dimethoate) with recommended doses in litchi orchard against C. sinensis during 2015 and 2016 AD to find out the efficient one. Among the tested insecticide chlorantraniliprole (18.5% w/w SC) and flubendiamide (39.35% m/m SC) each were found to be most efficient against C. sinensis and could be applied at the rate of 1 ml per 3 liter of water when fruit size was about pea and applied 3 times with 10 days interval.  This result suggested that these two insecticides could be used for the management for C. sinensis. Farmers may reduce the losses and increase their income with the application of these insecticides

Mango, Mangifera indica (L.) is the important fruit crop in production in Nepal. Sternochetus mangiferae; Fabricius (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) is major monophagous insect pest which causes loss of both quantitative and qualitative value. To mitigate this problem, we designed and conducted experiment in Randomized Complete Block Design to evaluate effective insecticide against mango stone weevil on station and farmers orchard in two consecutive years at Sunsari and Udaipur districts. We sprayed five insecticides namely: azadirachtin, thiamethoxam, flubendiamide, lamda cyhalothrin and dimethoate in recommended doses on mango plant when the fruit was of pea size for four times at ten days interval. The damage was recorded at harvesting stage. Significantly less damage was recorded on the thiamethoxam treated plants followed by flubendiamide and lamda cyhalothirn. The interaction of the treatments with the location and years was not significantly different suggesting that the year and location had not any influence on the treatment effect. Our result suggested that thiamethoxam is effective to manage mango stone weevil.