Pomegranate Pests and their Management
Pomegranate Butterfly / Fruit Eater Caterpillar Identification:
The caterpillars of this insect are strong-bodied, drooping, gray in color and have short and white spots on the body. The butterfly is a medium-sized, glossy brown to brown front wing with orange dots on top.
Loss: This pest causes severe damage to pomegranate crop. The caterpillar that hatches from the egg penetrates the fruit and eats the developing seeds. Such damaged pomegranates are infested with fungi and bacteria and cause bad odor. Deteriorating fruit quality has a detrimental effect on production. The damage of this pest is more prevalent during the monsoon season.
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Caterpillar:
The caterpillars of this insect are fair brown in color and have black heads while the front wings of the adult are light brown in color and have spots.
Disadvantages: The caterpillars of this insect eat the bark of the plant and the wood by peeling it and making a net from the bark and staying in it and eating the bark. The caterpillar makes holes in the trunk and branch joints. It is more common in older trees. The more infested part often dries out.
Mealybug Identification:
The female of this insect is oval without wings and its body is covered with waxy fibers. It has two white tail-like parts at the back. Males, on the other hand, have very short, long bodies and a pair of wings.
Disadvantages: This pest forms a waxy coating on the body of chicks and adults. So the fruit seems to have a fungus on it. Sucking juices from young and mature fruits degrades the quality and reduces the market price.
Fruit juice sucker:
Identification: The larvae of this insect are large in size and have an orange-brown body. The forewings are dark gray and green with spots and white lines while the hind wings are black and white with orange and seed moon.
Damage: The pest has caused about 5% damage to the pomegranate crop and a maximum of nine holes have been found in one fruit. Although it is included in the phytoplankton category, in exceptional cases, the pomegranate fruit is damaged in adulthood. Its caterpillars do not damage crops in any farm. Fandu is more active in the evening. The fungus makes holes in the fruit at different places with its strong mouths until it finds a suitable place on the fruit and finally sucks the sap from the fruit by peeling its trunk, resulting in softening of the area around the fruit Enters and the area around the hole becomes gray. Insect infestation also begins on the dead part of the fruit and eventually cobwebs are applied to the fruit. The damage caused by this fungus can be easily identified with the help of punctures on the fruit.
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Thrips:
Disadvantages: These insects are so small that it is difficult to see with the naked eye. Its young and adults scratch the surface of leaves, flowers and small fruits and suck the sap from them. The result is white stripes on the fruit. Infestation has a detrimental effect on fruit development.
Molo and whiteflies
Disadvantages: Green moles and whiteflies cause damage by sucking sap from dry twigs, leaves, fruits, flowers etc.
Parrots and squirrels
Damage: Parrots (hoodas) and squirrels damage pomegranate fruit by eating or piercing it. Such damaged fruits fall into decaying fruit. Select a place for planting which does not have large trees near the farm.
Integrated pest management
Destroy the infested and fallen fruits of the pomegranate butterfly by regularly weaving them along with the caterpillars.
Placing small fruits on a paper cone-shaped cap or paper bag reduces damage from fruit caterpillars, juice-sucking moths, squirrels and birds.
At the onset of pest infestation, apply neem powder (500% extract) or neem oil 20 ml. Or neem based medicine 20 ml. (1 EC) to 20 ml. (0.12 EC) Mix in 10 liters of water and spray.
Profenofos 20 EC 15 ml. Or Ca
rbaryl 40 Vepa 40 gm or Quinalphos Rup EC 20 ml. Effective control of fruit borer caterpillar can be obtained by mixing and spraying in 10 liters of water.
Carefully cut (pruning) the dried twigs to control the caterpillars. Clean the holes made by caterpillars and add 2 ml in 10 liters of water. Dichlorvosh: A mixture of EC is made into medicine and this liquid is poured into the hole and closed with wet soil or dung to kill the caterpillar. This solution can be used to clean the beetles from the trunk and spray it on the bark-eating caterpillars.
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Millibugs lay eggs in the ground. Therefore, deep fry in Khamana and mix Quinolphos 1.5% powder 100 to 150 gm per tree around the tree. In case of further infestation of this pest, Trizophos 30 EC or Profenophos 20 EC 20 ml is applied on the tree. Mix in 10 liters of water and spray.
Give a heavy watering if the mealybug infestation starts.
Applying a one-foot-wide plastic strap to the trunk and applying grease to its trunk can prevent chickpeas from climbing trees.
Considering the infestation of fruit-sucking moths from midnight to midnight, the use of nets and batteries to catch and destroy such moths can be done more effectively by doing this work on a mass basis.
Juice sucking caterpillars
Destroy these host vines as they do not feed on the vines (throat and weed) on the ridge.
Smoking around the damad garden in the evening as the juice sucking fungus causes damage during the night.
Using a light pager during the night wherever possible can attract and destroy the sucking trap.
400 ml of poison ivy (200 gm round 4 vinegar or fruit juice 18 ml 4-40 ml melathion 40 EC 4-2 liters of water). By taking the quantity in a container and placing it per 10 trees, the sucking trap can be attractively destroyed.
If the infestation of the islands is more severe, Methyl-O-Dimethon Rup EC or Dimithoate 20 EC 10 ml. Mix in 10 liters of water and spray.
Dimethoate 20 EC 10 ml. Or Trizophos 20 EC 15 ml. Or Acephate 2 SP 10 gm or Acetamiprid 20 SP 5 gm added in 10 liters of water and sprayed to control moles and whiteflies.
Molomshi and whiteflies spread viral diseases so if the onset of viral disease is detected in the farm, spray the above mentioned medicine as required at intervals of 15 days.
Birdnets can be used to prevent birds and squirrels from entering the area.
Using a reflective ribbon to stop the birds.