Red cotton bug (Dysderus koeinigii ,pyrrhocoridae , Hemiptera )

Damaging stage :Nymph and Adult.

Symptoms of damage : suck sap from green leaf and bolls open badely.

Identification

• Egg : laying soil near the
• Nymph ad Adult : Raddish with white band on abdomen and black marking on forwings.

Life cycle

Egg–4-7-days—>Nymph —30-80 days—> Adult

Management

• Trap crop: okra
• Moistened cotton seed should be hanged up in different place in the field where bugs congregate, they may get kill with kerosene water.
• Uproot and destroy the alternate wild hosts Hibiscus asper, cannabinus and H. trionus.
• chloropyriphos 20 EC @ 2 ml/l or Acephate 1g/l.