Detailed description of pest of pomegranate and their management

2. 1.Pomegranate Butterfly / Anar
Butterfly
•S.N. - Deudorix isocrates
•Family - Lycaenidae
•Order - Lepidoptera

3. Mark of Identification
Adult / Butterfly
• Butterfly is blakish brown with
an orange spot on each of the forewings.
• Black spots on the hindwings with a tail like
extension at the lower margin of hindwings.
• It is active in bright sun

4. •Host plant
Pomegranate
Guava, Annona,
Apple, Ber,
Citrus, Litchi,
Tamarind,
Mulberry

6. Caterpillar
• Caterpillar is dirty
brown in colour,
with light patches
• A few short hairs
• 16-20 mm long.

7. •Life history
•Eggs - Calyx of flowers or tender fruits.
•L.P. - 18-47 days.
•Pupation - inside the fruit or fruit stalk
P.P.- 7 to 34
•S.O.- Pest active throughout the year
•No of generation - 4 /year
•Life cycle completed 1-2 months.

8. Life cycle

9. Anar caterpillar

10. Nature of damage
•Caterpillar bore the fruit , feed on pulp and seeds.
•Damaged fruits get infected by bacteria resulting
the rotting of fruits
•Such rotten fruits gives offensive smell and fail
down .
•The excreta of larva around the entry hole is seen

13. Management
•Removal of flowering weeds especially of Composite
family.
•Bagging of fruits with polythene or paper bags or cloth
bags when the fruits are up to 5 cm.
•Use light trap @ 1/ ha to monitor the activity of adults.
• Collect and destroy damaged fruits.
•Clean cultivation as weed plants serve as alternate
hosts.
•Endemic areas - grow less susceptible varieties

14. •Insecticides: Malathion 50 EC 0.1% or
dimethoate 30 EC 0.06%, two rounds, one
at flower formation and next at fruit set.
•Flowering stage - spray NSKE 5% or neem
formulations 2 ml/1
•Apply dimethoate 30 EC 1.5 ml/I
•Release Trichogramma chilonis at one
lakh/acre.

15. 2.Bark Eating Caterpillar.
• S.N. - Indarbela tetraonis
Indarbela quadrinotata
• Family - Metarbelidae
• Order - Lepidoptera

16. Mark of identification
•Larva
Stout and dirty brown in colour
•Adult
Stout yellowish ,
Males are smaller than the females.

17. •Host plant
Mango, Citrus ,Ber ,Guava Pomegranate
•Life history
Eggs - on bark.
Pupa - inside the larval tunnel.
•No of generation -1/year

18. Nature Of Damage
•Larvae bore into wood making short
tunnel at joints of branches in which
they hide during day and come out at
night and feed on bark .
•As result feeding on bark the sap
conducting tissues damage

19. Bark Eating Caterpillar.

20. Control Measures.
• Keep orchard clean and avoid overcrowding of
tress.
• Use of iron hook in the active holes and plugging
with mud to kill the larva.
• Plugging with cotton swabs soaked in 10 ml of
dichlorvos or petrol .
• Inject CS2 solution
• Spray 0.05% monocrotophos
• Spray 0.02% dicholovos .

21. 3. Mealy bug
•S.N. - Ferrisia virgata
•Family - Pseudococcidae
•Order - Hemiptera

22. Identification Of Pest
•Nymph
Yellowish to pale white.
•Adult
Females apterous, long, slender
covered with white waxy secretions,
•Pair wax filaments at caudal end.

23. Mealy Bug

24. Nature Of Damage .
•Nymphs and adults suck the sap from the young
leaves tender shoot and flower
•Withering of flower buds and die off.
•Shedding of flower buds and flowers
•Affect the fruit setting.

25. Management
•Collect and destroy the infested plant parts.
•Remove alternate hosts.
• SprayTriozhophos 2 ml+ neem oil 5 ml/lit
• Spray Phosalone 35 EC 1.5 ml+ neem oil 5 ml/lit.
•Spray methyl demeton 25 EC or monoccrotophos 36WSC
2ml/lit
•Spray application of dichlorovas 76 WSC 1ml/lit + fish oil rosin
soap 25 g/lit
•Release Cryptolaemous montrouzieri beetles @ 10/tree.

26. 4.Fruit Sucking Moth
•S.N. - Conogethes punctiferalis
•Family - Noctuidae
•Order - Lepidoptera
•Details of the this pests are given under citrus

27. fruit sucking moth- Punctured fruit
Fruit sucking moth

28. 5.White fly
• Whitefly - Siphoninus phillyreae
•Family - Aleurodidae
•Order - Hemiptera

29. Identification of pest
•Nymph
short glass like rods of wax along the sides
of the body
•Adult
Powdery white, active during early morning
hours.

30. Nature of damage
•Nymphs and adults suck the sap from
leaves
•Honey dew - development of sooty mould
fungus
•Yellowing of leaves.
•Dropping of affected leaves.

31. Management
•Field sanitation
•Removal of host plants
•Installation of yellow sticky traps
•Spray neem oil 3% or NSKE 5%
•Release of predators viz., Coccinellid predator,
Cryptolaemus montrouzieri and lace wing fly, Mallada
astur
•Release of parasitoids viz., Encarsia haitierrsis and
E.guadeloupae

32. 6.Aphids
• S.N. - Aphis punicae
• Family - Aphididae
• Order - Hemiptera

33. Nature of damage
•Nymphs and adults suck the sap from
leaves, shoots and fruits
•Yellowing of leaves
•Wilting of terminal shoots.

35. Management
•Collect and destroy the damaged plant parts
•Use yellow sticky trap
•Spray application of dimethoate 25 EC .
•Spray methyl demeton 30EC at 2ml/lit .
•Release first instar larva of Chrysoperla carnea
@ 15 / flowering branch (four times) at 10 days
interval from flower initiation during April