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    The document summarizes information on several common insect pests of vegetables: - The pumpkin beetle is an orange beetle that damages leaves and stems by creating large holes. It can be managed by plowing fields after harvest and collecting/destroying adult beetles. - Whiteflies are tiny, moth-like insects found on the underside of leaves. They cause yellowing and drying of leaves. Reflective mulches and yellow sticky traps can help control whiteflies. - Scale insects are small, shell-like insects that suck plant sap and cause leaves to drop and branches to die back. They can be controlled using alcohol or neem-based treatments.

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    The document summarizes information on several common insect pests of vegetables: - The pumpkin beetle is an orange beetle that damages leaves and stems by creating large holes. It can be managed by plowing fields after harvest and collecting/destroying adult beetles. - Whiteflies are tiny, moth-like insects found on the underside of leaves. They cause yellowing and drying of leaves. Reflective mulches and yellow sticky traps can help control whiteflies. - Scale insects are small, shell-like insects that suck plant sap and cause leaves to drop and branches to die back. They can be controlled using alcohol or neem-based treatments.

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    Arlene Lie Fernando BSA -1B

    Agri 7- Introduction to Organic Agriculture


    Insect Pest of Vegetables

    Pumpkin bettle - Aulacophora foveicollis

    the dorsal part of the body of adult beetle is deep orange, while the ventral side is black. The
    beetle appears to be oblong measuring 5-8 mm in length and 3.5- 3.75 mm in width.
    It is one of the Chrysomelidaebettle species, a pale orange-yellow to medium brown.

    Damaged symptoms :
    ● It creates large holes in leaves and stems.
    ● You can see the red bettles all over the plants .

    Management strategy:

    Plough the fields just after harvesting destroy the hibernating adults. Collect and destroy adult
    beetles.
    Whiteflies - Aleyrodidae

    They are nymphs that is usually covered of cottony entity.


    They are also moths-like but tiny.
    Usually found in warm climates

    Symptoms Damaged:
    ● Leaves are slowly turning yellow
    ● Leaves will appear dry
    ● If it'll fall off
    ● It has cotton like thing in the leaves

    Management strategies:
    Reflective mulches can repel whiteflies from vegetable gardens, and yellow sticky traps can be
    used to monitor or, at high levels, reduce whitefly numbers

    Scale insect - Cocoidea


    A shell like insect with a waxy substance. From light - brown color that sticks to the plants
    stems.sucking insects that insert their tiny, strawlike mouthparts into bark, fruit, or
    leaves, mostly on trees and shrubs and other perennial plants.

    Symptoms Damaged:
    - Leaves drop
    - Yellowing leaf
    - Branches diebck

    Management strategies:
    dabbing individual pests with an alcohol-soaked cotton swab or neem-based leaf shine will also
    work when infestations are light.

    Cricket- Xenogryllus marmoratus


    The adult cricket is a pale brown.A long and spear shaped insect.has a long antennae and legs

    Symptoms Damaged:
    - Irregular to longitudinal exit holes
    - Cutting of central portions of the leaf blades leaving only the midrib
    - Dead heart.

    Management strategies:

    Maintaining standing water in the field prevents crickets from field by tunneling into the soil and
    damaging the crop.

    Sphecid species such as Liris aurulenta, Motes manilae, Motes subtessellatus and Motes
    loboriosus parasitize field crickets.

    Mealybug- Phenacoccus manihoti


    Mealybugs are slow-moving, small, oval insects that are covered with a white, cottony wax.
    They are tropical insects that are typically only found on perennial foliage plants, and rarely on
    flowering or bedding plants. They can infest all plant parts including the roots. Mealybugs are
    related to scales.
    being wingless look alike. Wingless insect covered with filamentous materials.

    - The damage is by sucking of the plant sap.


    - An infested field shows isolated patches of stunted and sickly looking plants.
    - The seedlings in the dry nursery are badly affected.
    - Large number of insects remains in leaf sheath and suck the sap.
    - Presence of white waxy fluff in leaf sheaths.
    - Called as Soorai disease or Chakdhora or Damaged spots.

    ● Remove the grasses from the bunds and trim the bunds.
    ● Remove and destroy the affected plants.
    ● Conserve the natural enemies like Scymnus sp.,Anatrichus pygmaeus, and
    Mepachymerus ensifer.

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