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Pest and Disease Management
Gall fly

Gall fly

  • Symptoms:
  • Maggots feed inside the floral bud leading to formation of gall like structure which fails to develop into flower/ capsule. Infected buds dry and fall off
  • Larvae feed on young shoots and leaves.
  • Larvae further infects capsule feeds inside on the seeds and leave excreta on the seeds.
  • Management:
  • Clipping of the galls, picking and burning the shed buds may help as prophylactic measure.
  • Spray neem seed kernel extract (NSKE) 5 g/lit water.
  • At bud initiation stage spray the crop with any one of the following insecticides dimethoate 1.5 ml/l or Quinalphos 25% EC 1.5 ml/l or Dichlorvos 76% EC 1 ml/l or Triazophos 40% EC 1 ml/l or Imidacloprid 17.8% SL 0.25 ml/l