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

2. Green peach aphid Myzus persicae Sulz. (Aphididae: Hemiptera)

Damage

• Both nymphs and adults suck the sap from the leaves curling and crinkling and sooty mould development of leaves are the typical symptoms of damage.
Bionomics

• Adults are both wingless and winged forms.
  
• Nymphs are in different colour forms mostly yellow, green and red. Yellow forms are more dominant.