• Fall Armyworm

  (300 miles) before oviposition, which is sufficient for them to move from seasonally dry habitats to wet habitats in Central America [...] warm, humid evenings. Females lay their eggs in clusters of 150-200 and can lay up to 2000 eggs in a lifetime. Eggs are [...] brown and measure 13 to 17 mm in length. The eggs hatch after 3-5 days. Over the next

• Cotton bollworm

  General The cotton bollworm ( Helicoverpa armigera ) occurs in the tropics and sub-tropics of all continents except for North America. [...] In legumes, flowers are attacked, and seed pods may be pierced. Life cycle and [...] . The forewings are edged with a line of black spots, and the hindwings in both sexes are cream with a dark brown band around their

• Pink Bollworm

  Premature opened bolls attract saprophytic fungi to grow in it. Life cycle and appearance Pink bollworm lays eggs all over the cotton plant, preferably on or near the buds and flowers. Each female lay egg about 200-400 in singly or in small groups. [...] flowers or squares after emergence where they feed internally within the pod and making an exit hole at maturation. Pupation takes place in soil, about 50mm

• Grape mealy bug

  making raisins. Life cycle and appearance Mealy bugs are found in crevices of stem, on leaves and berries [...] ovisac and eggs are orange in colour. First instar nymphs also called as crawlers are mobile, start sucking the plant sap and form colonies and are orange in colour. Female mealy bugs are abundantly

• Crane flies

  General The larvae of crane flies , called leatherjackets, live in the soil and feed on roots and shoots (which they pull into the ground of [...] in colour, oval, 1mm long and deposited on the soil surface. Larvae are [...] in the soil, usually in the third instar stage. and start feeding again in

• Melon thrips

  to healthy plants. Life cycle and appearance The reproduction in Thrips palmi takes place by sexual as well [...] also has an influence. After completion of nymph stage, it drops to soil and pupate in soil. There are two pupal stages viz., prepupae and pupae. Adults are pale yellow or white in colour and 0.8 to 1mm in length, with females slightly larger than males.

• Western flower thrips

  ) can be found on a wide variety of plants, including many vegetable and ornamental crops in greenhouses, and on various weeds. It is an especially significant pest in cucumber , sweet pepper , eggplants, and many ornamental crops. Damage [...] The eggs of the western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis) are laid in leaves, flower petals and in the soft parts of stalks. They are inserted

• Rose aphid

  and wingless forms of adults and a great variety in colour. In greenhouses, [...] or deep pink to red-brown. The antennae and sometimes the head is dark in colour. The siphunculi are black and bent [...] parthenogenetically. Large colonies of aphids can build up on roses in spring and summer; sometimes shoots are completely covered by aphids. In

• Pomegranate bacterial blight

  Relative humidity above 50% and temperature between 25 - 30 0 C, over-use of nitrogen fertilizer, micronutrient deficiency and reduced plant health leads to swift development of bacterial blight. Symptoms [...] spots which turns to dark black colour oily appearance on leaves results in premature defoliation. The pathogen also infects branches and stem as water

• Woolly apple aphid

  Woolly apple aphid In contrast to other aphids , the life cycle and survival from year to year of [...] (in the northern hemisphere) and around the end of May, large colonies covered [...] eggs do not develop. Contrary to the situation in America, South Africa, and Australia, woolly aphid does not infest roots in