List of pests with their scientific name

1. Brinjal fruit shoot borer: Leucinodes arbonalis

• Droppings of young shoots and holes plugged with excreta.
• Control includes cypermethrin and fenvalerate.

2. Stem borer: Euzophera perticella

• Old infected plants starts wilting.
• Carbofuran or neem cake.

3. Diamond back moth : Plutella xylostella

• Aborts head formation.

4. Cabbage butterfly : Pieris brassicae

• Eat leaves from margin inwards leaving intact the main veins.

5. Leaf webber : Crocidolomia binotalis

• Damage head and may rot.

6. Aphid: Brevicoryna brassicae and Lipaphis erysimi

• Devitalize the plants affecting quality of curds.

7. Tobacco caterpillar ( Spodoptera litura)

• Large larvae bore into heads.

8. Desert locust ( Asar 13, 2077) : Schistocerca gregaria
9. Fruit borer of tomato : Helicoverpa armigera
10. Cut worm: Agrostis ipsilon

• Seedlings are cut in the base at night.
• Control includes using chlorpyriphos ( 0.1%).

11. Painted bug: Bagrada cruciferrarum

• Black- and orange-colored adults and nymphs suck sap and leaves wither.

12. Pod borer: Muruca testulalis

• Caterpillar bore buds and pods.

13. Leaf eating caterpillar: Spilasoma obliqua

• Large no. of hairy caterpillar.
• Chlorpyriphos, Cypermethrin or carbaryl.

14. Red pumpkin beetle: Aulacophora foveicollis

• Larva feed on roots.

15. Fruit fly of cucurbits : Bactrocera cucurbitae

• Rotting of young/ ripening fruits.
• Resistant varieties include Arka surya-mukhi.

16. Blister beetle: Mylabris pustulata

• Bright colored beetles feed on flowers.

17. Tomato leaf minor : Tuta absoluta
18. Sting bug: Coridius brunneus

• Bug when touched emit characteristic smell.

19. Aphids : Aphis gossypii
20. Stem gall fly: lasioptera falcate
21. Thrips : Thrips tabaci
22. Onion fly : Delia antiqua

• Maggot feed on bulbs

23. White fly: Bemisia tabaci

• Transfer yellow vein mosaic virus

24. Rhizobium weevil : Cosmopolites sordidus

• Grub bore into stool and feed and later on rhizome

25. Pseudo stem weevil : Odoiporus longicollis

• Grub feed on leaf sheath and later bore into pseudostem.

26. Lemon butterfly: Papilio demolius

• Caterpillar are brownish black at initial stage and green at mature stage.

27. San jos scale: Quadraspidiotus perniciosus

• Polyphagous insect
• Suck sap from plant and even fruits

28. Wooly Apple aphid: Eriosoma lanigerum

• Suck sap results in gall formation.

29. Green shield scale of guava : Chloropulvinaria psidi

• Spray phenthoate

30. Stone weevil : Sternochetus mangiferae

• Spot application of fenthion or carbaryl during off season.

31. Shoot gall psylla : Apsylla cistellata

• Apical and auxillary buds are induced to form cone shaped green galls on mango shoot.
• Dimethoate and monocrotophos spray

32. Mango stem borer: Bactocera rufomaculata

• Gum arise from shoot replaced by chewed wooden mass.

33. Yellow stem borer: Sciropophaga incertulus

• Damaging stage is caterpillar

34. Pink stem borer: Sesamia inferens

• Caterpillar cause dead head and white ear.

35. Green leaf hopper: Nephotteix virescens

• Nymph and adult

36. Maize stem borer : Chilo partellus

• Caterpillar

37. White grub: Phyllophaga rugosa

• Caterpillar

38. Mustard saw fly : Atlalia lugens

• Larva

39. Rice weevil: Sitophilus oryzae

• Adult and larva

40. Fall Army worm : Spodoptera frugiperda
41. Army worm: Mythimna unipuncta
42. lac insects: Kerria lacca
43. Lady bird beetle: Coccinella sectumpunctata
44. Leaf hopper or Pyrilla : Pyrilla perpusilla walk
45. Termites: Odontotermes obesus Ramb
46. Paddy leaf hopper : Nephoettix spp.
47. Pink boll worm: Pectinophora gossypiella
48. Cotton jassid: Anirasca bigutulla bigutulla
49. Painted bug: Bagrada cruciferorum
50. Dagger nematode: Xiphinemna