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Chilli Thrips
Chilli Pests
Thrips
Symptoms
- The infested leaves develop crinkles and curl upwards.
- Elongated petiole
- Buds become brittle and drop down
- Early stage, infestation leads to stunted growth and flower production, fruit set are arrested
Identification
- Nymph: Are small, linear, easily fragile abdomen with straw yellow colour
- Adult: Fringed wings
Management
- Inter crop with agathi (Sesbania grandiflora) to provide shade which regulate the thrips population
- Do not grow chilli after sorghum
- Grow Agathi as intercrop
- Do not follow chilli and onion mixed crop
- Sprinkle water over the seedlings to check the multiplication of thrips
- Treat seeds with imidacloprid 70% WS @ 12 g/kg of seed
- Spray any one of the following insecticide
|
Insecticide |
Dosage |
|---|---|
|
Cyantraniliprole 10.26 OD |
1.8 ml/lit |
|
Thiamethoxam 75 WS |
6 ml/lit |
|
Pyriproxifen 8% + Dinotefuran 5% + Diafenthiuron 18% SC |
1.5 ml/lit |
|
Spiromesifen 22.9 SC |
1.25 ml/lit |
|
Dimethoate 30 EC |
1.5 ml/lit |
- The infested leaves develop crinkles and curl upwards.
- Elongated petiole
- Buds become brittle and drop down
- Early stage, infestation leads to stunted growth and flower production, fruit set are arrested
- Nymph: Are small, linear, easily fragile abdomen with straw yellow colour
- Adult: Fringed wings
- Inter crop with agathi (Sesbania grandiflora) to provide shade which regulate the thrips population
- Do not grow chilli after sorghum
- Grow Agathi as intercrop
- Do not follow chilli and onion mixed crop
- Sprinkle water over the seedlings to check the multiplication of thrips
- Treat seeds with imidacloprid 70% WS @ 12 g/kg of seed
- Spray any one of the following insecticide
|
Insecticide |
Dosage |
|---|---|
|
Cyantraniliprole 10.26 OD |
1.8 ml/lit |
|
Thiamethoxam 75 WS |
6 ml/lit |
|
Pyriproxifen 8% + Dinotefuran 5% + Diafenthiuron 18% SC |
1.5 ml/lit |
|
Spiromesifen 22.9 SC |
1.25 ml/lit |
|
Dimethoate 30 EC |
1.5 ml/lit |
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