3. Mealy bug

3. Mealy bug-Drosicha mangiferae Green. (Pseudococcidae: Hemiptera)

    Damage
    • It infests the leaves and inflorescence.
    Mango Mealy bug
    Management
    • Remove alternative weed hosts like clerodendran by ploughing during June - July.
    • Spray chloropyriphos 20 EC 2.5 ml / litre or monocrotophos 36 WSC 1.5 ml / litre of water.
    • Rake up soil to destroy ovisacs and dust carbaryl 15 D or lindane 1.3 D around tree basin.

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