Legumes pod bug (Anoplocnemis curvipes ,Coreidae, Hemiptera )

Damaging stage : Nymph and Adult

Damaging symptoms :

• Necrosis ,pod malformation, empty pod
• Premature drying ,sheiveling  of  seed, loss of germination     

Identification

Egg: brown color, laying singly or cluster in upper surface of leaf .

Nymph: mimic ant, hiding from ant .

Adult : dark colored , stout bodies ,leaf footed bug.

Management

• Collect and destroy
• Resistance varieties, early planting
• Intercropping with sorghum or green gram is reported to reduce popⁿ
• Intercropping with maize which is commonly practice is small holder farmer is said to cause increasing in pod sucking bug and therefore is not recommended.
• Predator :assasian bug , prayig mantids, spider
• Apply phosphorus (30kg/ha)which reduce the pod sucking
• Pyrethrin based insecticide .
• Commercial neem