Symptom of damage

• Bugs - puncture the terminal shoot below the flower bud and inject toxic saliva
• Flower drop occurs

• Nymphs are greenish.
• Adult bugs are mottled yellowish or reddish brown with flat, oval bodies

• Destroy the weeds in the vicinity of the crop.
• Spray dimethoate 30 EC or methyl demeton 25 EC 2ml/lit of water before flowering.