Symptom of damage

• Feed on the bulbs and roots and destroy them.
• Infest the scales and burrow into the stems.
• Infested leaves and stems become yellow.

Identification of the pest

• Very minute in size, visible to naked eye.
• Yellowish white in colour.
• Pinkish tinge, bead like, shining & slow moving mite.

• Applying peat.
• Steam sterilization of bulbs 600c for 30 min (or) 800c for 20 min.
• Alternate cropping with rice, solar drying of soils, and ploughing with sesbania, long term submergence of water.
• Chemical (or) warm water treatment of bulbs.
• Fortnightly spray with dicofol at 0.025-0.04% .