Leafy vegetables 2. Moringa 2. Bud worm

                             Pests on leafy  vegetables

                                                        MORINGA

2. Bud worm: Noorda moringae : Pyraustidae: Lepidoptera

• It is an important pest, cause shedding of buds up to 75%. Activity is more during summer months in South India. 
• Oval, creamy white eggs laid in clusters or singly on flower buds.
• Caterpillars are dirty brown with a prominent mid-dorsal stripe and black head and prothoracic shield. 
• Adult is small in size with dark brown fore wings and white hind wings with dark brown border.
• Shedding of buds.