PESTS ON FLOWER CROPS 1. Rose

pests on flower crops

1. rose   

 1. Rose thrips: Rhipiphorothrips cruentatus, Thripidae: Thysanoptera.

• Adults are blackish brown and nymphs are reddish in colour.
• Leaves with yellow patches and black spots of excreta.

2. Rose aphid/lice:  Macrosiphum rosaeformis (plains); M. rosae (hills), Aphididae: Homoptera.

• Small pear shaped soft-bodied aphids, light green to dark blackish green in color.
• Yellowing and drying of tender shoots. Clusters of aphids on tender shoots, buds and flowers.

3. Red Scale: Lindingaspis rossi, Coccidae : Homoptera.

• Reddish brown waxy scales completely cover the stem especially on the lower portion of the old stem and younger shoots.
• The affected plant parts become disfigured, dry wither away. In case of severe infestation, the entire plant dies.

Scale on Stem

4. Leaf cutting bees: Magachile anthracina : Megachilidae: Hymenoptera.

• Adult: Bee black in colour.
• Circular or semi circular cuttings on the leaves.

SemiCircular Cutting on Leaf

2. JASMINE

1.Budworm: Hendecasis duplifascialis: Pyraustidae:

Lepidoptera 

Bore hole on the bud &
Discoloration of the petals

• Larva: dark green with black head. Adult is a small white moth with (labial) black palpi and three lines on the abdomen and hindlegs. Pupation takes place in the soil.
• Caterpillar makes holes on the flower bud and feeds on the inner content.

          

               

2.Gallery worm: Elasmopalpus jasminophagus: Phycitidae: Lepidoptera.

• Moth is small dark grey.  Caterpillar is green with a red head and prothorax and lateral brown streaks on the body. Pupation takes place in the web itself.
• Caterpillar web together the terminal leaves, shoots and flower heads and feed on them.

3. Leaf webworm: Nausinoe geometralis: Pyraustidae: Lepidoptera.

• Caterpillar is green with dark warts.
• Adult is a medium sized moth, has light brownish wings with white spots. 
• Caterpillar web the leaves together and remain inside. 

3. Nerium

1.Sphingid caterpillar   Deilephila nerii  :       Sphingidae :  Lepidopter.

Adult: Robust, green moth with yellow markings

2.Leaf butterfly :Euploea core: Danaidae :  Lepidoptera.

• Larva: Blackish brown, striped with six tentacles-two each near the anterior and posterior ends and a pair at the middle. 
• Adult: Black butterfly with a series of white spots on the margin of the wing.

4. Lily

Leaf caterpillar: Polytela gloriosa : Noctuidae :  Lepidoptera.

•  Adult: Brown with yellow and red markings. 
• Larva: Black with red and white spots.

5.CROSSANDRA

1. Aphids:Aphis craccivora :Aphididae:Homoptera.

2. Crossandra bug: Cynenica affinis:Pentatomidae:Hemiptera 

3. Leaf scale insect Temnaspidiotus excisus Diaspididae: Hemiptera 

4. Bud borer: Helicoverpa armigera :Noctuiidae :Lepidoptera.

5. Tussock caterpillar Dasychira mendosa Lymantridae: Lepidoptera.

6. CHRYSANTHEMUM

1. Aphid: Macrosiphoniella sanborni :Aphididae :Homoptera.

2. Thrips:Microcephalothrips abdominalis, Frankiniella sp, Thrips sp, :Thripidae : Thysanoptera.

3. Bud borer:Helicoverpa armigera :Noctuiidae :Lepidoptera.

7.TUBEROSE

1. Bud Borer,:Helicoverpa armigera :Noctuidae:Lepidoptera.

2. Stripped mealybug:Ferrisia virgata :Pseudococcidae :Homoptera.

3. Thrips: Thrips flavus; T. tabaci :Thripidae :Thysanoptera.

4. Aphids: Aphis craccivora : Aphididae : Homoptera.