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Major INSECT -PESTS of Sapota. author :-T.Tejasri

 MAJOR INSECT PEST OF SAPOTA

1.sapota leaf Webber

2. Bud borer

3.fruit fly 


1.Sapota leaf Webber

Scientific name  :- Nephopteryx eugraphella

Family  :-.  Pyralidae

Order:- lepidoptera

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Symptoms of Damage :-

  • Caterpillar webs and feed on  leaves

  • Scrapping chlorophyll content  

  •  Leaves dried and hanging from the webbed shoots


  • Caterpillar bores into flower buds and tender fruits - withered and shed.

Control measures:- 

Remove and destruct the infested fruits from the orchard

Collect and remove the dried clusters of leaf web

Insecticides: Spray phosalone 35 EC 2 ml/lit or phosphamidon 40 SL 2 ml/lit or neem seed kernel extract 5%.

2. Bud borer :-

Scientific name  :- Anarsia archasella

Family :- Gelichidae

Order :- Lepidoptera


Symptoms of damage:-

  • Webbed flower buds

  • Presence of bold hole on flower buds .

  • Excreta also seen 

  • Shedding of flower bud

  • . Control measures :-

  •  Collection and destruction of infected plant parts .

  • Application of Neem oil - 5ml /litre /ha

  • Spray application of dichlorovas 2ml /litre or indoxacarb - 0.5ml /litre or fenvallarate 1 ml / litre water .

3. Fruit fly 

Scientific name :- Bactocera dorsalis

Family:- Tephritidae

Order :- Diptera


Symptoms of damage:-

  • Immature fruit drop

  • Resinus oozing of fluid ( brown)

  • Browing rot on fruit

Control measures:-

  • Collection and destruction of infested fruits and fallen fruits

  • Raking of soil to expose the pupae to the sunlight

  • Other traps - Methyl euginol attractive for fruit fly .

  • Fruit fly traps

  • Arrange the poison beds - malathion 10 ml + jaggery 100 gms + 1 litre water

  • Spraying application of any chemical spinosoid - 0.3 ml / litre or malothin.



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