San Jose Scale (Diaspidiotus perniciosus, Diaspididae)

Damaging stage: Nymph and Adult

Damaging symptoms:

• Plant growth is checked, in severe infestation plant
• Yellow spot appear in the leaf, twigs and
• Fruit remains small, immature, discolored, cracked.

Identification

• Male scale is elongate, lighter amber color, a long projection from the base of abdomen and smaller than females.
• The male has wings and long antannnae.
• Females are round or oval, grayish, wingless and legless and its yellow body is soft and gobular.
• Nymphs are minute, yellow in color.

Management:

• Spraying Dormant oil, mineral oil ( servo oil)
• Root dipping
• Trenchdiggingandincorporate–disiton/temikand irrigate
• parasitoid, Encarsiapernicoisi
• Buprofezin
• Rogar
• Pyripoxyfen
• Carbofuran granules