To control onion thrips at minimum cost, botanicals and new insecticides could easily be adopted. Keeping in view this study was designed to evaluate the newly introduced chemicals and botanicals were affects the population density of thrips in onion. Therefore, this study was undertaken to evaluate effectiveness of newly introduced
insecticides and botanicals on the management of onion thrips and to determine the effects of essential oils from plant species within the
Lamiaceae family and some of their volatile main constituents (i) on the feeding activity and (ii) on the survival of T. tabaci. We selected essential oils and volatile compounds that have previously been found to have allomonic and or toxic activity against various mite and insect pest species