Pigeonpea is an important pulse crop is known to attack by wide range of insect pests from seedling stage to storage. Among these, recently gall weevil causing threat to pigeonpea at seedling stage. Results revealed that pigeonpea late sown crop will suffer much with more than percent damage and the early sown crop escapes with only 30 percent damage at 30 DAS. The rainfall and minimum temperature showed negative correlation(, with minimum temperature at 20 and 30 DAS, , with rainfall at 20 and 30 DAS) Also, the damaged plant showed least number of branches ( branches) and plant height () compared to healthy plants. | Effect of different dates of sowing on the incidence of Pigeonpea gall weevil alcidodes collaris (Pascoe)
