Management

Symptoms of damage

• Nymphs and adults suck the sap from young leaves.

Adult

• Chlorotic patches at leaf tips, in a typical 'V' shape.
• Under severe infestation, leaf margins become necrotic, scorched known as hopper burn.

Identification of the pest

• Egg: Female inserts eggs into leaf veins on the underside.
• Nymph: Pale greenish and walk diagonally.

• Adult: Green coloured, elongated and wedge shaped.

• Timely sowing of the crop can reduce the pest infestation.
• Intercrop lab lab with groundnut @1:4 ratio.
• Irrigate frequently to avoid prolonged mid season drought to prevent infeststion.

• Spray or apply any one of the following insecticides

• Imidacloprid 17.8 SL @ 40-50 ml/ac
• Quinalphos 25 EC @ 560 ml/ac