| The research studies an arthropod community in upland rice ecosystem at farmers’ field in Ban Had District, Khon Kaen Province, Northeast Thailand, was conducted during May to October 2011. Samples were collected using light traps, yellow sticky traps, sweep nets and visual observation methods. A total of 7,195 individual arthropods from 160 species were recorded in this study. Among the sampling methods, 140 species were recorded using light trap, followed by 108, 58 and 30 species collected by using yellow sticky trap, sweep net and visual observation, respectively. The arthropod community of this studies constituted of four guilds as phytophagous, predator, parasitoid and scavenger. The predator (60.93 % of total individuals and 47.17% of total species)... |
