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1. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE , SARGODHA
Usama maqsood

2. FOLIAGE PESTS OF
MULBERRY

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

4. 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

5. 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/

6. 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

7. 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.

8. • BLACK SCALE-SAISSETIA NIGRA
/RED SCALE-AONIDIELLA AURANTII
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.

9. SPIRALLING WHITEFLY-ALEURODICUS
DISPERSES
Female lays pedicellate eggs and covered by wax.
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

10. REFERENCE
G.P. Gupta, Premkishore, Dinesh Clnndra etls), ICAR, Ncw
Dclhi, 69-76 pp.
ULLAL, S.R. & NARASIMHANNA, M.N .(1978) I
Ianribookof Pructical Sericulture.
Central Silk Board, BangrJorc, 166 p.
VENUGOPALA PILLAI, S. (1968) Obseravations on the
fuproctis Fraterna M.
(Lymantridae: Lcpidoptera) - apestolthe mulberryplantin
Mysore.IndianJ. Seric. T(l)
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VENUGOPALA PILLAI, S. (1968) Bionomic of the
Eupterote mollifera W.
(Eupterotidae : Lepidoptera) - a pcst on the mulberry
plantlndianJ. Seric.T(l):52-55.
VENUGOPATA PILLAI, S. ( I 968) S tudies of rtre
bionomics of the C e ryx go dar ti B dv.
(S yntomidae : Lepidoptera), I ndian J . S e r i c., 7 (l) : 7 4
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