Insects

Pest Of Lily, Neriyum, chyrysanthemum,Crotons, Teak, casuarina, Bamboo, Eucalyptus, Neem etc

PESTS OF LILY

Leaf caterpillar Polytela gloriosa Noctuidae :  Lepidoptera

Adult – brown with yellow and red markings. Larva -leaf feeder

PESTS OF NERIUM

Sphingid caterpillar   Deilephila nerii         Sphingidae :  Lepidoptera

Adult: Robust, green moth with yellow markings

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

PESTS OF CHRYSANTHEMUM

Black aphidMacrosiphoniella sanborniAphididae :  Hemiptera
Composite thripsMicrocephalothrips abdominalisThripidae :  Thysanoptera
BorerHelicoverpa armigeraNoctuidae :  Lepidoptera

Leaf folder                 Hedylepta indicata             Pyraustidae Lepidoptera Leaves become folded.  Larva: Green with white stripes. Adult: orange moth with dark lines

PESTS OF CROTONS

Mealy bugPlanococcus lilacinusPseudococcidae :  Hemiptera
Brown scaleSaissetia coffeaeCoccidae :  Hemiptera

Leaf caterpillar                       Sphingid caterpillar  

Leaf butterfly                          Leaf folder  

PESTS OF TEAK

DefoliatorHyblaea pureaHyblaeidae :  Lepidoptera
SkeletonizerHapalia machaeralisPyraustidae :  Lepidoptera
SphingidAcherontia lachesisSphingidae :  Lepidoptera
LooperHyposidra successariaGeometridae :  Lepidoptera
Bihar hairy caterpillarSpilosoma obliquaArctiidae :  Lepidoptera
Leaf rollerSylepta stramineaPyraustidae :  Lepidoptera
Tobacco caterpillarSpodoptera lituraNoctuidae :  Lepidoptera
Leaf beetleColapsoma downsei, Chrysomelidae :  Coleoptera
WeevilAlcidodes ludificatorCurculionidae :  Coleoptera
Bark caterpillarIndarbela tetraonisMetarbelidae :  Lepidoptera
AphidAphis gossypiiAphididae :  Hemiptera
Mealy bugMaconellicoccus hirsutusPseudococcidae :  Hemiptera
Castor capsule borerDichocrocis punctiferalisPyraustidae :  Lepidoptera
Shot hole borerXyleborus andrewsiScolytidae :  Coleoptera
Jewel beetle/ BorerPsiloptera fastuosaBuprestidae :  Coleoptera

Teak defoliator, Skeletonization of the older leaves Defoliation. Larva: Dark,  greyish green with faint longitudinal lines. Adult: Greyish to reddish, Forewings grayish purple or reddish brown with streaks, hind wings dark brown with orange scarlet edges transversely across the middle

Teak skeletonizer, Skeletonization of the leaf uniformly. Larva: Green with brown or yellow longitudinal bands laterally, Adult: Bright yellow forewings with pink zigzag transverse markings

       Defoliator              Jewel beetle                 Skeletonizer  

PESTS OF BAMBOO

BorerEstigmena chinensisChrysomelidae :  Coleoptera
BorerCyrtotrachelus duxCurculionidae :  Coleoptera
Leaf minerCosmopteryx bambusaePyraustidae :  Lepidoptera

PESTS OF CASUARINA

Needle borerEumenodera tetrachordaCosmopterygidae :  Lepidoptera
Bag wormClania crameriPsychyidae :  Lepidoptera
Bark caterpillarIndarbela tetraonisMetarbelidae :  Lepidoptera
Red borerZeuzera coffeaeCossidae :  Lepidoptera

PESTS OF EUCALYPTUS

TermitesOdontotermes sp., Microtermes sp.Termitidae :  Isoptera
BorerCelosterna scabratorBatocera rufomaculataCerembycidae :  Coleoptera

PESTS OF NEEM

ScalePulvinaria maximaCoccidae :  Hemiptera
Tea mosquito bugHelopeltis antoniiMiridae :  Hemiptera
ThripsTaeniothrips chatogastraPhlaeothripidae :  Thysanoptera
Kernal borerAraecerus fasciculatusAnthribidae :  Coleoptera

Borer Cyrtotrachelus dux      Bag worm         Borer Celosterna scabrator

Kernal borer Araecerus fasciculatus

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