Wednesday, November 13, 2024
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Agriculture > Spices
> Vanilla (Vanilla planifolia)
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Crop Management
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Pests affecting vanilla
Sl. No.
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Pest attack
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Name of the pest
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Symptoms
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Control measures
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1
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Vanilla bug
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Halyomorpha spp. , Picus spp.
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Sucks the sap from the vegetative bud and inflorescence leading to rotting
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Collect the egg mass at first nymph stage in Nov-Feb
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2
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Vanilla vine weevil
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Sipalus sp.
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Black coloured weevil bores into and eats tender stem and leaves
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Collect and destroy the weevils during adult stage during Nov-Feb.
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3
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Beetle
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Saula ferruginea
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Adults cut through the leaf from the lower surface eating the entire leaf tissue
except the thick translucent cuticle of epidermis
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Collect and destroy or spray 0.1 percent Malathion
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4
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White grubs
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Scarabaeidae
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Feeds on roots and destroys them
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Drench the soil at the base with 0.05 percent Chloropyriphos.
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5
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Caterpillar
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Plusia aurifera
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Light greenish caterpillars feed on vegetative shoots and first leaf forming a web
in between
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Collect and destroy.
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6
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Achatina
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Achatina spp.
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Feed on the young shoots and leaves which turn whitish
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Collect and destroy. Avoid mulch material that do not decompose easily. Spray sevin
dust.
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