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

6. Leaf eating hairy caterpillar

4. Leaf eating hairy caterpillar - S. celtis

Damage

• The pest was found defoliating the leaflets and young twigs.





Biological control

• It was also parasitized by two hymenopterans viz., Cotesia (Apanteles) sp. and Charops sp.