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Crop Protection :: Pests of Guava

Fruit Borers: Congethes (=Dichocrocis) 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
  • Adult - Yellowish moth with black spots on the wing and body.

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% two rounds, one at flower formation and next at fruit set.

 


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