3. Sapota
1. Chickoo moth or Leaf webber Nephopteryx eugraphella :Phycitidae:
Lepidoptera.
- Egg: Pale yellow, ovalshaped & laid in groups. EP: 2-11 days.
- Larva is slender and pinkish with a few longitudinal brown lines on a dorsal-lateral surface. Larval period is 13 to 60 days. pupates in the leaf web.
- Adult moth is greyish with forewings having brown or black spots and hind wing semi hyaline.
- Leaves webbed together in abunch, chlorophyll scrapped and reduced to a net work of veins; clusters of dried shoots; flower buds and tender fruits bored, become withered and shed.
2. Bud worm Anarsia epotias :Gelechiidae: Lepidoptera.
- Larva is small, slender, pinkish brown in colour with black head and yellowish brown thoracic shield.
- Adult moth is grey coloured with black patches on wings.
- Floral buds and flowers webbed together and shed.
4. Ber
Ber
fruit fly Carpomyia
vesuviana :Tephritidae : Diptera.
- Adult: Small fly with black spots on the thorax and dark spots on the wings.
- Fruit rotting and fruit drop.
5. Jack
Borer:Margaronia
caesalis: Pyraustidae: Lepidoptera
- Larva: reddish brown with pale brown head and thin hairs from black warts.
- Adult: brown with grey elliptical patterns on the wings.
- Bore holes on fruit and fruit drop.
6. Pomegranate
1.Anar butterfly: Duodorix isocrates Lycaenidae:Lepidoptera.
- Host range: Aonla, apple, ber, citrus, guava, litchi, loquat, peach, mulberry,pear, sapota, tamarind.
- Caterpillar - dark brown, having short hairs and white patches all over the body. Pupa: Pupates inside fruit but occasionally outside even, attaching themselves to stalk of fruits.
- Adult: Glossy - bluish - violet (male) to brownish violet (female) with an orange patch on forewings.
- Infested fruit with bore hole plugged with anal segment of the larval; fruit rotting and dropping.
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