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Crop Protection :: Pests of Papaya

Fruit fly: Bactrocera (Dacus) dorsalis

Symptoms of damage

  • Maggots puncture into semi-ripe fruits with decayed spots
  • Oozing of fluid and brownish rotten patches on fruits.
  • Dropping of fruits.

Identification of pest

  • Egg - pear shaped, light yellowish
  • Nymph - Oval, scale-like, greenish white
  • Settle down on a succulent part of leaves.
  • Adult - White, tiny, scale-like adults.

Management

  • Collect fallen infested fruits and dispose them by dumping in a pit and covering with soil.
  • Provide summer ploughing to expose the pupa
  • Monitor the activity of flies with methyl eugenol sex lure traps.
  • Heavy application of dust and sprays of pyrethrum or BHC
  • Spray fenthion 100 EC 2 ml/ lit or malathion 50 EC 2ml/lit.
  • Field release of natural enemies Opius compensates and Spalangia philippines

Note

  • Prepare bait with methyl eugenol 1% solution mixed with malathion 0.1%.
  • Take 10 ml of this mixture per trap and keep them in 25 different places in one hectare between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m.
  • 250 ml capacity wide mouthed bottle fitted with hanging device at its neck.
  • Change the solution at fortnightly interval from March to July.

 

Larvae Adult


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