Brinjal Pests
Shoot Borer
Symptoms
- Withering of terminal shoots/dead hearts
- Bore holes on shoots and fruits plugged with excreta
- Shedding of flower buds
- Withering and drying of leaves
Identification
- Eggs:Â Creamy white eggs
- Larva:Â Pink in colour
- Pupa:Â Greyish boat shaped cocoon
- Adult: Medium sized moth. Forewings has black and brown patches and dots on white colour, hind wings are opaescent with black dots
Management
- Remove the affected terminal shoot showing boreholes.
- Remove the affected fruits and destroy.
- Avoid continuous cropping of brinjal crop
- Grow the varieties with long and narrow fruits in endemic areas
- Install pheromone trap@12/ha
- Encourage the activity of larval parasitoids:Â Pristomerus testaceus, Cremastus flavoorbitalis
- Avoid use of synthetic pyrethroids
- Avoid using insecticides at the time of fruit maturation and harvest
- Spray Neem Seed Kernel Extract 5 % or any one of the following chemicals starting from one month after planting at 15 days interval
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Insecticide  |
Dosage |
|---|---|
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5g/10lit |
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8g/10lit |
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 1.5ml/lit |
