Pest identification and controling in strawberry

2. Pest identification
Spider mites
 Very Small
 Red colour
 White colour legs
 White colour hairs
In body

3. Damage & symptoms
 Spider webs
 Reduce plants growth
 Chlorosis

4. Control
 Cleaning affected leaves.
 Avoid high temperature and increase
ventilation.
 chemical application.

5. Cyclamen mites
Damage and symptoms
 Curling all leaves in plants.
 Burning sign in flowers.
 Cracks in fruits.

6. Thrips
 Small
 Black color

7. Damage and symptoms
 Nymphs and adult trips can injure
the plant by rasping the plant
tissues and sucking the exuding
sap.
 Trips feed on strawberry blossoms
and cause the stigmas and anthers
to turn brown and abort

8. Control
 removing effected plant parts
 Improving Reducing temperature.
 Chemical control.

9. Aphids
 Green and black color Aphids can
be seen.
 Nymph is green color and small.

10. Damage and symptoms
 Aphid nymphs and adults feed on
strawberry plant sap.
 ruduce plant growth.
 curled leaves, yellowish spots

11. Control
 removing effected plant parts
removing
 Chemical control.

12. Lygus bugs

14. Damage and symptoms

15. Control
 Manually removing
 Chemically

16. Lygus bugs
 Small beetle
 Yellow color dots in black color
body.
 Red color head
 Black color legs

17. Damage
 Chewing flowers, fruits and
leaves

18. Control
 Manually control
 Chemical control

19. Window beetle
 Small
 Shiny black color

20. Damage
 Chewing leaves top layer.

21. Control
 Manually control
 Chemical control

22. Caterpillar
 Small to large
 White, green, black and brown
color.

23. Damage and symptoms

27. Control
 Manually removing
 chemically

28. Black cut warm

29. Damage and symptom

30. Control
 Manually
 Chemical control

31. Slug

32. Damage and symptom

33. Control
 Chemical control

34. White grub

36. White grub

37. Damage and symptom

39. Control
 Manually
 Chemically