The study was conducted in three districts of Punjab to find out the indigenous techniques for management of insect-pests and their scientific background. It was revealed that several indigenous practices are useful for pest management and are relevant even in modern agriculture. These included irrigation of infested fields (termites), hand picking and killing of larval stage (American bollworm), beating tin boxes and drawing ropes on the crop (locust), spreading mixture of rice and sesamum on boundaries of newly sown crop (ants), trapping insects on yellow polythene or iron sheets (aphids and whitefly), dusting of ash and making bird perches (several insect pests). These practices need to be utilized in integrated pest management practices.