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Crop Protection :: Pests of Pomegranate
Anar butterfly: Deudorix (Virachola) isocrates 
Symptoms of damage  
  • Caterpillar bores into young fruits
  • Feeds on internal contents (pulp and seeds)
  • Fruit rotting and dropping

Identification of pest

  • Larvae - dark brown, short and stout, covered with short hairs
  • Adult - bluish brown butterfly
  • Female – V shaped patch on forewing

Management

  • Collect and destroy damaged fruits
  • Clean cultivation as weed plants serve as alternate hosts
  • Endemic areas - grow less susceptible varieties
  • Adopt ETL (5 eggs/plant)
  • Cover the fruit with polythene bags when the fruits are up to 5 cm
  • Use light trap @ 1/ ha to monitor the activity of adults
  • Insecticides: malathion 50 EC 0.1% or dimethoate 30 EC 0.06%, two rounds, one at flower formation and next at fruit set.
  • Flowering stage - spray NSKE 5% or neem formulations 2 ml/1
  • Apply dimethoate 30 EC 1.5 ml/1.
  • Release Trichogramma chilonis at one lakh/acre.
Adult

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