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Abstract

ABSTRACT A survey was conducted in 35 selected localities of Poplar plantations of Pakistan. From each locality 9 Poplar plantations were surveyed with random sampling, a total of 315 plantations were surveyed. Most of the survey was conducted from Populus deltoides plantations. Insect pests representing 5 orders, 35 families and 76 species were recorded during the study. Lepidoptera represented by 12 families (35%) comprised of 28 insect species (37%), Coleoptera consisted of 12 families (34%) had 22 insect species (29%), whereas order Homoptera represented by 5 families (14%) with 8 insect species (10%), Hemiptera by 4 families (11%) with 16 insect species (21%) and Isoptera by 2 families (6%) with 2 insect species (3%) were recorded in the surveyed.