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.