Red pumpkin beetle (Aulocophora fovicollis, Chrysomelidae, Coleoptera)

Damaging stage: grub and Adult

Damaging symptoms: Grub ( root damage), adult (leaf hole).

Identification

• Egg: laying egg inside the moist soil near root zone, yellowish pink
• Grub: dirty white(freshly hatch) ,creamy to yellow (full grown)
• Pupa: pupation in soil
• Adult: yellowish red brown elytra, black abdomen.

Life cycle:

Egg—6-7 days–> Larva –13-15 days–> Pupa –7-17 days–> Adult

Management:

• Collect and destroy.
• Early sowing,flodding.
• Dusting of ash mioxed with kerosene oil applied of parthenium
• Neem seed kernel
• Yellow sticky trap.
• Pupal parasitoid : Opius fletcheri, O. compensans
• Carbaryl @ 2g/l., malathian @ 2ml/l of water.