Pests on leafy vegetables
AMARANTHUS

2. Amaranthus caterpillar or webber: Hymenia recurvalis : Pyraustidae: Lepidoptera

• It is a destructive pest, found all the year round.
• Eggs are spherical in shape and snow-white in colour and are laid singly or in batches of 2 to 5, in grooves of leaf veins
• Caterpillars are greenish in colour with white lines and black crescents on thorax below lateral line 
• Adult is a dark brownish black moth with white wavy markings on wings
• webbing of leaves and scrapping of chlorophyll.

Adult 

caterpillar