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PESTS OF COTTON :: Minor Pests


 

 

Major pests

6.

Red cotton bug (Minor but regular)

Dysdercus cingulatus

Pyrrhocoridae

Hemiptera

7.

Dusky cotton bug (Minor but regular)

Oxycarenus hyalinipennis

Lygaeidae

Hemiptera

8.

Tobacco Cutworm

Spodoptera litura

Noctuidae

Lepidoptera

9.

Leaf roller

Sylepta derogata

Pyraustidae

Lepidoptera

10.

Semiloopers

Anomis flava
Xanthodes graelsi
Tarache nitidula

Noctuidae

Lepidoptera

11.

Stem weevil

Pempherulus affinis

Curculionidae

Coleoptera

12.

Shoot weevil

Alcidodes affaber

Curculionidae

Coleoptera

13.

Surface weevil

Attactogaster finitimus

Curculionidae

Coleoptera

14.

Black scale

Saissetia nigra

Coccidae

Hemiptera

15.

White scale

Pulvinaria maxima

Coccidae

Hemiptera

16.

Yellow stem scale

Cerococcus hibisci

Asterolecanidae

Hemiptera