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1. FOLIAGE PESTS OF MULBERRY
BY
V.KALAISELVAN
2013004030.

2. Commonly 2 types of insects affects the foliage of mulberry
plant.
 sucking pest
 leaf folders

3. Sucking pests
Mealy bug- maconellicoccus hirsutus
 Female is pinkcolour and covered with wax
 Females –wingless male-wing short period of life
 350-500 eggs. Hatch week in a time.
 Orange colour.egg period -5-10 days
 Adult secrets honey attracts sooty mould and ant.
Nature of damage:
 It sucks the sap from shoot tip
 Leaf yield and plant height reduced
Symptoms:
Dark green crinkle leaves.flattering of apical shoot.TUKRA disease
Management:
 Burn the infected shoots
 Spray DDVP 76wsc 2ml/lit
 Release predator cryptolacemus 100 beetels/ha

4. leaf hopper- empoasca flavescens
 Female lay pale yellow colour eggs
 Hatch in 10 days
 Sucks the under surface of leaf
Nature of damage:
 Nutritive value of leaf is reduced
Symptoms:
 Hopper burn
 Triangular dark brown spots at tip of the leaves
 Management:apply ddvp 76 wsc 2ml/lit

5. Female lays 200 eggs.
oval and yellow in colour.
female fix leaf surface.male can fly.
eggs hatch in 7 days.
male life span is 1 day.
NATURE OF DAMAGE:
desap the stem and shoots.
So it dry up from the tip.
SYMPTOMS:
yellowish mottled appearance of leaf.
MANAGEMENT:
dislodge the scales by scrapping with ablunt edge wooden
plate.
Swap the stem with diesel oil and soap mixture(3:1).
spray malathion 50 EC 1ml/lit.
• Black scale-saissetia nigra Red scale-aonidiella aurantii

6. spiralling whitefly-aleurodicus disperses
 Female lays pedicellate eggs and covered by wax.
 EP-4-6 DAYS. NP-12-14 days.
 3rd and 4th stage instar secrete adundant of wax.
Nature of damage:
 They attack surface of leaf.
 Nutritive value reduced.
Symptoms:
 Yeloow speckling on leaves,crinckling and curling of
leaves.
 Sooty mould growth on leaves.
Management:
 Collect and burn leaves
 Set light trap
 Spray fish oil resin soap@40g/lit

7. Leaf folders
Tobacco caterpillar-spodoptera litura
 Adult moths are greyish brown with white markings on the
forewings hind wings have brown border.
 Early instar gregarious and scrab green matter.later solitary and
nocturnal in habit. LP-2-3 weeks.PP-13-15 days.
 Nature of damage:larvae cut the stem of young plants and feed
on leaves.
Symptoms:
 The cut portion of the shoot dries and fall down.
 Chlorophyll scrapping and defoliation in older leaves.
Management:
 Light and pheromone trap
 Deep ploughing t expose the pipae.
 Spray dichlorovos 2ml/lit


8. moringa hairy caterpillar- eupterote mollifera
Adults yellow incolour dark band running margin of
leaf
Eggs laid in mass
Eggs round .sulphur yellow colour.
EP-9-13 days
LP-50-60 DAYS
PUPATION TAKES PLACE IN SOIL

9. Ash weevil- myllocerus spp
 Grey weevils lay egg in soil.
 Grubs feed on rootlets.
 The adult notch the leaf margins
Nature of damage:
 Notch on leaf edges.
 Wilted plants.
Management:
 Hand picking the adults and kill them.
 Sprau DDVP 2ml/lit
 Digging 7-8 cm and destroy young stages.

10. leaf webber- glypodes pulveruntalis
 Green colour larvae cause damage by folding the
leaves and webbing the tender shoots.
 Apical tips preferred for feeding,and result in
stunting.
 Quality of leaf and yield is affected.
Symptoms:
 Webbing at shoot tips
Management:
 Clip and destroy the webs at shoot tips.
 Set light trap.
 Spray DDVP @2ml/lit.