Mango melay bug (Drosicha mangiferae , Margarodidae , Hemiptera)
Damaging stage :- Nymph and Adult
Damaging symptom:- Sap sucking , sooty mold.
Identification:-
- Egg:- laying inside soil, root zone
- Nymph:- Smaller than adult
- Adult:- After mating male dies ,Male :- Wings ,Female :- wingless, Flat in shape covered with white cottony like substance.
Management :-
- Ploughing /hoeing to expose the egg ,buming the egg and physical distruction are more effective than traditional chemical control .
- Sticky bond , gunny bad stripes , 1 cm above ground at baisakh-jestha
- Gunny bag stripes helps to encourage the predator sumnius
- Trunk of tree is plaster with mixture of mud and wet Fresh FYM (1:1 ratio ) to prevent crawling of immature .
- Bonding tree with the helps of plastic sheet with grease at 10 cm above ground .
- Tolidol@ 2 ml, metasystox @0.4% stem girth injected 1 meter aboveground inn drilled hole were superior in control over spray.
- Predator :- Menochilus sexmaculotus ,Rodolia fumida ,Cryptomlaemus montrozieri