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

3. Flying fox

3. Flying fox - Pteropus edwardsii (Chiropterae: Mammalia)

Damage

• They feed on tender nuts during night times and affected nuts drop off
Management of Vertebrates

• Cover the trunk with tin.
• Use poison baits and trap for rats.
• Provide bird nests to encourage predation.
• Remove dry leaves, spathes and matrix regularly from the crown to expose to the nesting places of rat to predators.
• Place 10 gram of bromodialone 0.005 % cake on the crown of one palm out of every five palms twice on an interval of 12 days.