Papaya Pests
FruitFly
Symptoms
- Maggots puncture into semi-ripe fruits with decayed spots
- Oozing of fluid and brownish rotten patches on fruits.
- Dropping of fruits.
Identification
- Egg - pear shaped, light yellowish
- Nymph - Oval, scale-like, greenish white
- Settle down on a succulent part of leaves.
- Adult - White, tiny, scale-like adults.
Management
- Collect fallen infested fruits and dispose them by dumping in a pit and covering with soil.
- Provide summer ploughing to expose the pupa
- Monitor the activity of flies with methyl eugenol sex lure traps.
- Heavy application of dust and sprays of pyrethrum or BHC
- Field release of natural enemies Opius compensates and Spalangia philippines
- Take 10 ml of this mixture per trap and keep them in 25 different places in one hectare between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m.
Prepare bait with methyl eugenol 1% solution mixed with malathion 0.1%.
Collect fallen infested fruits and dispose them by dumping in a pit and covering with soil.
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Insecticides |
Dosage |
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Methy Eugonol |
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Malathion 50% EC |
2ml/lit |
