• The infested leaves develop crinkles and curl upwards
• Elongated petiole
• Buds become brittle and drop down.
• Early stage, infestation leads to stunted growth and flower production, fruit set are arrested

• Nymphs: Tiny, slender, fragile and straw yellow in colour
• Adult: with heavily fringed wings

• Inter crop with agathi Sesbania grandiflora to provide shade which regulate the thrips population
•  Do not grow chilli after sorghum – more susceptible to thrips
•  Do not follow chilli and onion mixed crop – both the crops attacked by thrips
•  Sprinkle water over the seedlings to check the multiplication of thrips
• Treat seeds with imidacloprid 70% WS @ 12 g /kg of seed
• Apply carbofuran 3% G @ 33 kg /ha or phorate 10 % G  @ 10 kg/ha or spray any one of the following insecticide

• The infested plants turn pale with sicky appearance.
• The leaves curled and crinkled
• Honeydew excrete - development of sooty mould
• Stunted growth of the plant

• Nymphs initially are greenish, but soon turn yellowish.
• Adults – yellowish green in colour

• Treat seeds with imidacloprid 70% WS @12 g /kg of seed
• Apply phorate 10 % G @ 10 kg/ha or spray any one of the following insecticide

• Newly hatched larvae scrap the green matter in the leaf
• Affected leaf looks like a papery white structure
• Later instar larvae feed by making small holes
• In severe infestations they feed voraciously on the entire lamina, petiole and some times
• even the tender twigs on the terminal shoots of plants.
• Also feed on the floral parts and bore into the fruits.

Larva

• Young caterpillars are light green with black head or black spots
• Gregarious in the early stages
• Grown caterpillars are grey or dark brown

Adult

• Forewings – brown colour with wavy white marking
• Hindwings-  white colour with a brown patch along the margin

• Plough the soil to expose and kill pupae
• Castor as a trap crop
• Set up pheromone trap @ 15/ha
• Collect and destroy the egg masses, gregarious larvae and grown up caterpillars
• Spray SINPV @ 1.5*10 12 POB/ha in evening hour

• Early instar feeds on foliage
• Grown up larvae mainly bore into the fruits.

• Eggs – are spherical in shape and creamy white in colour, laid singly
• Larva - shows colour variation from greenish to brown
• Pupa – brown in colour, occurs in soil, leaf, pod and crop debris

• Adult   -   Female brownish yellow stout moth
• Male – light greenish in colour

• Collect and destroy the infected fruits and grown up larvae.
• Setup pheromone trap with Helilure at 15/ha
• Six releases of T. chilonis @ 50,000/ha per week coinciding with flowering time
• Release Chrysoperla carnea at weekly interval at 50,000 eggs or grubs / ha from 30 DAS.
• Spray HaNPV at 1.5*10 12 POB/ha along with cotton seed oil 300 g/ha to kill larvae.
• Spray carbaryl 50 WP 2 g/lit or B. thuringiensis 2 g/lit
• Provide poison bait with carbaryl 1.25 kg, rice bran 12.5 kg, jaggery 1.25 kg and water 7.5 lit/ha or spray any one of the following insecticide

• Downward curling and crinkling of leaves
• Leaves with elongated petiole
• Stunted growth

• Oval shaped eggs and white in colour
• Eggs glued firmly on the leaf surface
• Nymphs white in colour
• Adult : large, oval and broad and yellowish in colour

• Encourage the activity of predatory mite: Amblyseius ovalis
• Apply phorate 10 % G @ 10 kg/ha or spray any one of the following insecticide