Crop Protection :: Pest of Red Gram
| Blue butterfly: Lampides boeticus |
Symptoms of damage
- Buds, flowers and young pods with boreholes
- Presence of slug like caterpillar.
- Honey dew secretion with black ant movements
Identification of the pest
- Larva – It is flat and slightly rounded; Pale green with a rough skin.
- Adult - moth is greyish blue with prominent black spots in the hind wings and a long tail; Ventral side of wings with numerous stripes and brown spots
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Management
- Avoid dense and close planting
- Avoid early or late sowing
- Regular soil digging cause death of larvae and pupae
- Egg parasitoid, Trichogramma spp.,
- Larval parasitoids, Hyperencyrtus lucoenephila and Litrodromus crassipes
- Carbaryl 50 WP@ 1000 kg / ha
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