Insect Pests of Fruit, Plantation, Medicinal & Aromatic Crops (2+1)

1. Bark eating caterpillar

1. Bark eating caterpillar - Indarbela tetraollis Moore. (Metarbelidae: Lepidoptera)

Damage

• The larva feeds on the bark under silken galleries which serve as shelter and it also bores into the stem and branches and killing them eventually.




Larva inside stem




Rope like galleries plastered on trunk