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Keywords: levels of management practices, classification of pests, present status of insect management technology, damage, economic thresholds, host plant resistance, chemical control, biocontrol, augmentation Lysiphlebus testaceipes on greenbug, cultural control, economic return from insect control, insect management of sorghum in storage

Insect pests: greenbug Schizaphis graminum, yellow sugarcane aphid Sipha flava, corn leaf aphid Rhopalosiphum maidis, shootfly Atherigona soccata, sorghum borer Chilo partellus, fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda, chinch bug Blissus leucopterus, sorghum midge Contarinia sorghicola, sorghum webworm Celama sorghiella, corn earworm Heliothis zea, jowar earhead bug Calocoris angustatus, banks grass mite Oligonychus pratensis, white grub Phyllophaga crinita, wireworms, species of Eleodes, Conoderus, Aelous, stem borers (Diatraea grandiosella, D. saccharalis, Eldana saccharina, Busseola fusca, Sesamia cretica), armyworms (Pseudoaletia separata, Spodoptera exempta, S. exigua, Pseudaletia convecta), headworms (Stenachroia elongella, Eublemma spp., Dichocrosis punctiferis, Cryptoblabes adoceta, Heliothis armigera),

List of parasitiods of key insect pests:

Sorghum shootfly: Aprostocetus sp., Callitula bipartitus, Tetrastichus nyemitawus, Trichogramma evanescens, Syrphophilus bizonarius, Phygadeuon sp., Trichostereis sp., Pachyneuron sp.,

Greenbug: Lysiphlebus testaceipes, Aphelinus nigritus, A. varipes, Aphidius confusus, Aphelinus mali, A. semiflavus, Diaeretiella rapae, Pachyneuron siphonophorae, Asaphes lucens, Aphidencyrtis aphidivorus, Chrips sp., Tetrastichus minutus,

Stemborers: Apanteles flavipes, Bracon chinensis, Schizophora sp., Xanthopimpla stemmator, Stenobracon deesae, Eurytoma sp., Apanteles sesamiae, Sturmiopsis parasitica, Chasmias, Ceraphron fijisensis

Sorghum midge: Aprostocetus diplosdis, Eupelus popa, Tetrastichus sp.,

Sorghum webworm: Apanteles sorghiella, Meteorus hyphantriae, Temelucha minor, Spilochalcis flavopicta,Catolaccus aeneoviridis, Horismenus microgaster, Trichogramma minutum