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Pomegranate

Anar butterfly

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

Adult

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.

Fruit borer

Symptoms of damage

Caterpillar bores into young fruits

Feeds on internal contents (pulp and seeds)

Dry up and fall off in without ripening

Identification of pest

Larva: Pale greenish with pink tinge and fine hairs with dark head and prothoracic shield.

Adult: Yellowish moth with black spots on the wing and body

Adult

Management

Collect and destroy damaged fruits

Clean cultivation as weed plants serve as alternate hosts

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.

Tailed Mealy Bug

Symptoms of damage

Premature dropping of fruit.

Identification of pest

Nymph: Yellowish to pale white.

Adult: Females apterous, long, slender covered with white waxy secretions, pair wax filaments at caudal end.

Management

Collect and destroy the infested plant parts

Remove alternate hosts

Triozhophos 2 ml+ neem oil 5 ml/1, phosalone 35 EC 1.5 ml+ neem oil 5 ml/1.

Spray methyl demeton 25 EC or monoccrotophos 36 WSC 2ml/lit

Spray application of dichlorovas 76 WSC 1ml/lit + fish oil rosin soap 25 g/lit

Release Cryptolaemous montrouzieri beetles @ 10/tree.

Whitefly

Symptoms of damage

Nymphs and adults suck the sap from leaves

Honey dew - development of sooty mould fungus

Yellowing of leaves.

Dropping of affected leaves.

Identification of pest

Nymph - short glass like rods of wax along the sides of the body

Adult - Powdery white, active during early morning hours.

Adult - white fly

Management

Field sanitation

Removal of host plants

Installation of yellow sticky traps

Spray neem oil 3% or NSKE 5%

Release of predators viz., Coccinellid predator, Cryptolaemus montrouzieri and lace wing fly, Mallada astur

Release of parasitoids viz., Encarsia haitierrsis and E.guadeloupae

Aphid

Symptoms of damage

Nymphs and adults suck the sap from leaves, shoots and fruits

Yellowing of leaves

Wilting of terminal shoots.

Identification of pest

Pale green, winged and wingless aphids.

Management

Collect and destroy the damaged plant parts

Use yellow sticky trap

Spray application of dimethoate 25 EC or methyl demeton 30EC at 2ml/lit for effective management this pest

Release first instar larva of Chrysoperla carnea @ 15 / flowering branch (four times) at 10 days interval from flower initiation during April

Aphids, Aphis punicae