Pests on Medicinal plants

Pests on Medicinal plants

1. Glory lily

1. Lily caterpillar: Polytela gloriosae 

2. Semilooper: Plusia signata 

3. Tobacco cutworm: Spodoptera litura 

2. Keezhanelli

Whitefly, Bemisia tabaci

Thrips, Thrips tabaci

Aphid, Macrosiphum  euphorbiae

Red spider mite, Tetranychus urticae

3. Aswagantha

Helicoverpa armigera

Epilachna beetle- Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata

4.Indian gooseberry

1. Leaf Roller: Caloptilia (=Gracillaria ) acidula :Gracillariidae: Lepidoptera.

• Larva – cylindrical, yellow with thin, scattered hairs.
• Adult – small, brownish moth

2.Fruit borer: Deudorix isocrates

          New pest on amla. Earlier recorded as a major pest of pomegranate.

4.BELLADONA

Cut worm, Agrotis flammetra :Noctuidae: Lepidoptera.

Leaf feeder, Archipsinca ceana

5. SENNA

Green leaf eating caterpillar, Catopsilia pyranthe: Pierdae: Lepidoptera

Pod borer, Etiella zinckenella :Phycitidae :Lepidoptera

6. LONG PEPPER

Mealy bug, Dysmicoccus sp. :Pseudococcidae: Homoptera

Tea mosquito bug, Helopeltis theivora :Miridae: Hemiptera.

7. VETIVER

White grub: Holotrichia serrata :Melolonthidae: Coleoptera.

Termite, Odontotermes sp :Termitidae: Isoptera.