“…2015, season of lac crop (Ghosh et al, 2014), strain of the lac insect (Sharma et al, 2017), nutrient management (Sharma et al, 2017, Namdev et al, 2015, predator management (Virendra et al, 2017) or even location of the host trees (Kalahal et al, 2017). Survival of lac insects from BLI to maturity of crop reported by many workers as 10.71 to 17.21 per cent (Shah et al, 2014), 34.08 to 51.53 per cent (Gurjar, 2016), 33.53 to 41.77 per cent (Sharma et al, 2015), 20.86 to 26.05 per cent (Kumar et al, 2017), 19.63 to 20.58 per cent (Namdev et al, 2015) and 20.47 to 23.52 per cent (Shah et al, 2018), 52.13 to 81.53 per cent (Vajpayee et al, 2019).…”