Metcalfa pruinosa is the agricultural pest, first reported in Seoul, Gyeong-gi, Gyeongnam, Korea in 2009. This pests are difficult to control due to the wide range of hosts such as beans, apples, ginseng, pears, persimmon, and peaches. This study was carried out to investigate the ecological characteristics of M. pruinosa in pepper cultivation area. As a result of the density of M. pruinosa survey in Chungnam, Korea in 2018, the density of wintering-eggs, nymph, adult was the largest in Dang-jin area. And the results of the ecological characteristcs survey of M. pruinosa in red pepper cultivation area of Korea, M. pruinosa didn’t enter a red pepper field. In addition, the possibility of using three kinds of plants as attraction plants was examined in order to control environmentally friendly M. pruinosa. Among them, the greatest number of M. pruinosa nymph were attracted to Sunflower and Green perilla during nymph stage.

• Hwa-Young Seo(Environmentally Friendly Agriculture Division, Chungnam Agricultural Research and Extension of Services, Korea)
• Gyeong-Ju Lee(Environmentally Friendly Agriculture Division, Chungnam Agricultural Research and Extension of Services, Korea)
• In-Su Hwang(Environmentally Friendly Agriculture Division, Chungnam Agricultural Research and Extension of Services, Korea)
• Mi-Sook Na(Environmentally Friendly Agriculture Division, Chungnam Agricultural Research and Extension of Services, Korea)
• Yong-Seok Choi(Environmentally Friendly Agriculture Division, Chungnam Agricultural Research and Extension of Services, Korea)