This document describes the identification and symptoms of damage from various pests that affect crops. It provides details on the appearance of eggs, larvae, pupae, and adult forms of each pest. The symptoms of damage include defoliation, holes in pods, dropping of flowers and pods, and honeydew secretions. The pests are identified by their coloration, markings, and physical features at each life stage.

4. Symptoms of Damage Damage Shown
 Defoliation in early
stages
 Larva’s head alone
thrust inside the pods
and the rest of the
body hanging out.
 Pods with round holes

5. Identification of the pest
 Eggs – are spherical in shape and
creamy white in colour, laid singly

Larva - shows colour variation from
greenish to brown. Green with dark
brown grey lines laterally
 on the body with lateral white lines
and also has dark and pale bands.

Pupa – brown in colour, occurs in
soil, leaf, pod and crop debris

Adult - light pale brownish yellow
stout moth. Fore wing grey to pale
brown with V shaped speck.Hind
wings are pale smoky white with a
broad blackish outer margin.

6. Symptoms of Damage
Damage Shown
 Bore holes on the
buds, flower or pods
 Infested pods and
flowers are webbed
together.

7. Identification of pest Damage Shown
 Larva - Greenish white
with brown head. It has
two pairs of dark spots
on the back of each
segment
 Adult - Forewings- light
brown colour with white
markings; Hindwings –
white colour with brown
markings at the lateral
edge

8. Symptoms of Damage
 Dropping of flowers
and young pods
 Older pods marked
with a brown spot
where a larvae has
entered

9. Identification of the pest
 Larval – greenish
initially, turns pink
before pupation.
 It has 5 black spots on
the prothorax

10. Symptoms of Damage
 Buds, flowers and
young pods with
boreholes
 Presence of slug like
caterpillar.
 Honey dew secretion
with black ant
movements

11. Identification of the pest
 Larva – It is flat and
slightly rounded; Pale
green with a rough skin.
 Adult - moth is greyish
blue with prominent
black spots in the hind
wings and a long
tail; Ventral side of
wings with numerous
stripes and brown spots

12. Symptoms of Damage
 Buds, flowers and
young pods with
boreholes and
presence of slug like
caterpillar.
 Larval entry hole on
the pod is plugged
with excreta.

13. Identification of the pest
 Larva - pale green or
yellow with a red line
and short black hairs
on the body.
 Adult - butterfly is
blue, medium sized
with 5 black spots in
the hind wings and
two black spots in
the inner margin.

14. Symptoms of Damage
 Leaves, inflorescence
stalk and young
pods covered with
dark coloured aphids
 Honey dew secretion
with black ant
movements

15. Identification of the pest
 Nymphs and Adult –
dark coloured with
cornicles in the
abdomen

16. Symptoms of Damage
 Leave mottled and
yellowish in colour
 Green colour insects
found under surface
of leaves

17. Identification of the pest
 Adult – elongate,
active, wedge shape,
green insects

18. Symptoms of Damage
 Symptoms of
damage
 Pods with black spots
 Shedding of green
pods
 Poorly filled pods
with shriveled grains
inside

19. Identification of the pest
 Identification of the
pest
 Riptortus pedestris
 Brownish black and
hemispherical
 Nymphs – resemble
dark brown ants

20. Symptoms of Damage
 Cluster on
the plant parts and
suck the sap

21. Identification of the pest
 Identification of the
pest Nymphs and
Adult - sub globular,
oval and greenish
shield bug.
 It has a characteristic
buggy odour

22. Symptoms of Damage
 Leave mottled and
yellowish in colour
 vector of yellow
mosaic virus

23. Identification of the pest
 Adults -are small,
yellow bodied insects
with white wings
which are
densely covered
with a waxy powder.
 Nymphs and pupae -
are black and round
or oval. Pupae have
marginal bristles

24. Symptoms of Damage
 adult feeds
voraciously on buds
and flowers.

25. Identification of the pest
 Eggs - are light
yellowish in colour and
cylindrical in shape.
 Larvae - Young grubs
are white in colour.
 Adult – Elytra are black
in colour with a round
orange spot and two
transverse
wavy orange bands
across the wings.