FRUIT BORERS
Anar butterfly Deudorix (Virachola) isocrates 

Symptoms of damage

Caterpillar bores into young fruits Feeds on internal contents (pulp and seeds) Fruit rotting and dropping

Identification of pest
Larvae - dark brown, short and stout, covered with short hairs Adult - bluish brown butterfly Female – V shaped patch on forewing	Adult

Management

Collect and destroy damaged fruits Clean cultivation as weed plants serve as alternate hosts Endemic areas - grow less susceptible varieties Adopt ETL (5 eggs/plant) Cover the fruit with polythene bags when the fruits are up to 5 cm Use light trap @ 1/ ha to monitor the activity of adults Insecticides: malathion 50 EC 0.1% or dimethoate 30 EC 0.06%, two rounds, one at flower formation and next at fruit set. Flowering stage - spray NSKE 5% or neem formulations 2 ml/1 Apply dimethoate 30 EC 1.5 ml/1. Release Trichogramma chilonis at one lakh/acre.

2. Fruit borer, Conogethes punctiferalis

Symptoms of damage

Caterpillar bores into young fruits Feeds on internal contents (pulp and seeds) Dry up and fall off in without ripening

Identification of pest
Larva: Pale greenish with pink tinge and fine hairs with dark head and prothoracic shield. Adult: Yellowish moth with black spots on the wing and body	Adult

Management

Collect and destroy damaged fruits Clean cultivation as weed plants serve as alternate hosts Use light trap @ 1/ ha to monitor the activity of adults Insecticides: malathion 50 EC 0.1% or dimethoate 30 EC 0.06%, two rounds, one at flower formation and next at fruit set.

SUCKING PESTS
Tailed mealy bug, Ferrisia virgata

Symptoms of damage

Premature dropping of fruit.

Identification of pest

Nymph: Yellowish to pale white. Adult: Females apterous, long, slender covered with white waxy secretions, pair wax filaments at caudal end.

Management

Collect and destroy the infested plant parts Remove alternate hosts Triozhophos 2 ml+ neem oil 5 ml/1, phosalone 35 EC 1.5 ml+ neem oil 5 ml/1. Spray methyl demeton 25 EC or monoccrotophos 36 WSC 2ml/lit Spray application of dichlorovas 76 WSC 1ml/lit + fish oil rosin soap 25 g/lit Release Cryptolaemous montrouzieri beetles @ 10/tree.

Whitefly, Siphoninus phillyreae 

Symptoms of damage

Nymphs and adults suck the sap from leaves Honey dew - development of sooty mould fungus Yellowing of leaves. Dropping of affected leaves.

Identification of pest
Nymph - short glass like rods of wax along the sides of the body Adult - Powdery white, active during early morning hours.	Adult - white fly

Management

Field sanitation Removal of host plants Installation of yellow sticky traps Spray neem oil 3% or NSKE 5% Release of predators viz., Coccinellid predator, Cryptolaemus montrouzieri and  lace wing fly, Mallada astur Release of parasitoids viz., Encarsia haitierrsis and E.guadeloupae

Aphid, Aphis punicae 

Symptoms of damage

Nymphs and adults suck the sap from leaves, shoots and fruits Yellowing of leaves Wilting of terminal shoots.

Identification of pest
Pale green, winged and wingless aphids.	Aphids, Aphis punicae

Management

Collect and destroy the damaged plant parts Use yellow sticky trap Spray application of dimethoate 25 EC or methyl demeton 30EC at 2ml/lit for effective management this pest Release first instar larva of Chrysoperla carnea @ 15 / flowering branch (four times) at 10 days interval from flower initiation during April

Source

• www.Infonet.biodivision.org 
• www.ikisan.com
• www.ipm.ucdavis.edu