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Crop Protection :: Peach
Peach borer: Sphenoptera lafertei

Symptoms of damage

  • Beetle feed on leaves
  • Young grubs bore into and feed inside bark and make irregular galleries
  • Gum globules appear at the points of entrance on bark

Management

  • Collect and destroy the damaged shoots and branches
  • Swab trunk with carbaryl 50 WP at 0.2%
  • Spray malathion 0.1% .
  • Field release of some natural enemies like gray field antFormica aerata, chalcid wasps, Copidosoma (=Paralitomastix) varicornis and Hyperteles lividus,
  • Spray application of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) products have been effective if applied when larvae are first noticed and before they tunnel into twigs, buds or fruit.
  • Spray application of following insecticides
Timing Product
pink (peach) Azinphos-methyl (Guthion or Sniper 50WP)
or phosmet (Imidan 50%WP)
petal-fall (peach and apricot) Thiodan, Guthion, Sniper, Imidan
petal-fall (peach only) Deltamethrin (Decis 5 EC)
husk-fall (apricot) Thiodan,Guthion, Sniper or Imidan
summer (apricot and peach) Thiodan,Guthion, Sniper, or Imidan

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