TNAU Agritech Portal
Home | About Us | Success Stories | Farmers Association | Farmers' Innovation | Publications| Contact

Crop Protection :: Pest of Soybean
Jassids: Apheliona maculosa

Symptoms of damage

  • Infested leaves start yellowing from the margins.
  • In case of severe attack, all the leaves become yellow and eventually fall off from the plants.
Identification of the pest
  • Adults and nymphs: are light green in colour and suck the sap from leaves and stem.

Management

  • Install one light trap (200W mercury vapour lamp) per hectare to catch the adults of some nocturnal pests such as jassid, (positively phototropic)
  • Spray 0.05 % quinalphos 25 EC, oxydemeton methyl 25 EC, or dimethoate 30 EC @ 2ml /lit at the crop age of 35-40 days and repeat after 15 days if needed.
 


Home | About Us | Success Stories | Farmers Association | Publications | Contact Us

© 2015 TNAU. All Rights Reserved.