Serangga Entomofagus Sebagai Biological Control di Areal Persawahan Fafibola Kabupaten Timor Tengah Utara

Abstract

Tubuhue Village is a village located in North Central Timor Regency with a large rice field area. This large rice field area was used as a research location to determine the level of distribution and the role of entomophagous insects as a biological control in the agroecosystem. The benefits of the value of entomophagous insects as a biological control for life encourage humans to maintain their sustainability and diversity. However, there is a possibility that the balance of entomophagous insects' ecosystem as a biological control in the area is disturbed because chemical pesticides damage the habitat they occupy. Knowing the diversity of entomophagous insects as biological controllers in rice fields is the aim of the study. Fafibola North Central Timor Regency and environmental aspects that affect it. This research took place in April – June 2022 in the Fafibola rice field area of North Central Timor Regency. The data collection technique in this study is insect nets. Data analysis used the Shannon Wiener Diversity Formula to measure entomophagous insects' types and levels of diversity. The diversity index of all species is in the medium category.