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Crop Protection :: Cash Crop :: Pest of Cotton

Dusky cotton bug: Oxycarenushyalinipennis

Symptom of damage

  • Sucks the sap from developing seeds in open bolls and stains the lint black
  • Seeds discolored and shrunken

Identification of the pest

  • Eggs - Cigar shaped, white eggs in clusters of 2-10 within the half opened bolls, on the bolls, flower or buds
  • Nymphs and adults - Dusky, greyish brown bug, with pointed head and hyaline wings

Management

  • Spray phosphamidon 40 SL 600 ml/ha

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