Turmeric is plagued by several insect pests including the shoot borer, leaf roller, and rhizome scale. Biological control uses natural predators and parasitoids like Bracon wasps, Apanteles wasps, Xanthopimpla wasps, lacewings, ladybugs, dragonflies, spiders, robber flies, and praying mantises. Entomopathogenic nematodes and attractant plants that lure natural enemies can also help control turmeric insect pests.

1. Shoot borer
Conogethes punctiferalis
Leaf roller
Udaspes folus
Rhizome scale
Aspidiella hartii
BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF TURMERIC INSECT PESTS
By
P M Sugandhan

2. Bracon sp Myosoma sp Apanteles sp Xanthopimpla sp
Chrysoperla Coccinellids King crow Reduviid bug
Dragonfly, Spiders Robber fly Praying mantids
Predators and Parasitoids

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Entomopathogenic nematode (EPN) of the genus Rhabditis/
Oscheius and Hexamermis sp.
Attractant plants for natural enemies: Carrot family, sunfl ower
family, buckwheat, alfalfa, corn, shrubs (minute pirate bug,
lacewing and ladybird beetle).