Stem fly: Atherigona orientalis
Symptoms of damage:
- The maggot feeds on the young growing shoots results in “dead hearts”
Identification of pest:
- Adult: Small grey coloured fly
Management:
- Use seeds pelleted with insecticides
- Seed treatment with imidacloprid 70 WS 10 g/kg of seeds
- Plough soon after harvest, remove and destroy the stubbles
- Set up the TNAU low-cost fishmeal trap 12/ha till the crop is 30 days old
- Soil application of phorate 10% CG 10 kg/ha at the time of sowing
- Apply any one of the following insecticides
- Methyl demeton 25 EC 500 ml/ha
- Carbofuran 3% CG 33.3 kg/ha
- Dimethoate 30% EC 1155 ml/ha
- Methyl demeton 25% EC 1000 ml/ha
- Phorate 10% CG 10 kg/ha
Source-
- TNAU Agritech Portal
