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Crop Protection :: Pests of Moringa

Bark caterpillar: Indarbela tetraonis

Symptoms of damage:

  • Zig-zag galleries and silken webbed masses comprising of chewed material and excreta of larva

Identification of pest:

  • Larva: long, stout and dirty brown in colour
  • Adult: Pale brown moth. Forewings has brown spots and streaks, Hind wings are white in colour

Management:

  • Clean all webbed material, plug the holes with cotton wool soaked in fumigants like chloroform, formalin or petrol and seal it with mud
Bore hole damage Adult

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