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Jassids: Empoasca kerri
Symptoms of damage
- Nymphs and adults suck the sap from young leaves.
- Chlorotic patches at leaf tips, in a typical 'V' shape.
- Under severe infestation, leaf margins become necrotic, scorched known as hopper burn.
Identification of the pest
- Egg: Female inserts eggs into leaf veins on the underside.
- Nymph: Pale greenish and walk diagonally.
- Adult: Green coloured, elongated and wedge shaped.
Management
- Timely sowing of the crop can reduce the pest infestation.
- Intercrop lab lab with groundnut @1:4 ratio.
- Irrigate frequently to avoid prolonged mid season drought to prevent infeststion.
- Spray or apply any one of the following insecticides
- Imidacloprid 17.8 SL @ 40-50 ml/ac
- Quinalphos 25 EC @ 560 ml/ac
- Quinalphos 1.5 DP @ 10 kg/ac
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Chlorotic patches on leaflets |
Hopper burn symptom |
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