Symptoms of damage
- Premature dropping of fruit.
Identification of pest
- Nymph: Yellowish to pale white.
- Adult : Females apterous, long, slender covered with white waxy secretions, pair wax filaments at caudal end.
Management
- Collect and destroy the infested plant parts
- Remove alternate hosts
- neem oil 5 ml/1, phosalone 35 EC 1.5 ml+ neem oil 5 ml/1.
- Spray methyl demeton 25 EC or monoccrotophos 36 WSC 2ml/lit
- Release Cryptolaemous montrouzieri beetles @ 10/tree.