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

2. Epilachna beetle

2. Epilachna beetle - Epilachna vigintioctopimctata (Coccinellidae: Coleoptera)

• Both grubs and adults feed by scrapping chlorophyll from epidermal layers of leaves, which get skeletonized and gradually dry away. Grub is yellowish and stout with spines all over the body.
  
• Adult is spherical pale brown and mottled with black spots.
  
• Collect and destroy eggs, grubs and adults.
  
• Spray NSKE 5% or carbaryl 50 WP or malathion 50 EC or dimethoate 0.03 % /1.