Jute hairy caterpillar (Splilarctia oblique, Arctiidae, Lepidioptera)

Damaging stage: larva

Damaging symptoms: scrap the green parts of leaves, in severe condition only leaves midribs and cross vein and completely skeletonized the jute plants.

Identification

• Egg: underside of leaves
• Larva: yellow hairy and brownish red.
• Pupa: soil, leaves.
• Adult: brown color, black spot on wings.

Life cycle:

Egg -1 weeks–> larva –2-3 weeks—> Pupa –6-7 days–> Adult

Management

• Make trench and irrigate.
• Egg parasitoid:trichogramma chionis @50000-1000000
• Larval parasitoids: Meteorus spilosomae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and Protapantales obliquae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae).
• Bacillus thuringenesis.
• nuclear polyhedrosis virus
• Light trap
• Pyrethoid based pesticide ,neem based
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