Category Archives: Pest and Disease

Fire ants form mound around the plants and may damage the roots. A colony of fire ant may extend one meter and half below ground…

Fig. Adult Coconut Bug Symptoms This bug attacks tender buttons. Attacked buttons do not develop resulting in immature nut fall. Nuts, if developed may become…

Fig. (a) Larvae inside leaf (b) Pupa inside frass galleries Symptoms The severity of the attack is seen from January to May. The caterpillar feeds…

Management of Termite Symptoms Termites are likely to cause damage to transplanted seedlings, particularly in the earlier stages. They gnaw into the husk and the…

Management of Leaf Blight or Grey Leaf Spot Symptoms Minute yellow spots encircled by grayish bands appear on the surface of mature leaves of the…

Management of Coconut leaf hispid or miner Coconut leaf miner/hispid beetles are a serious pest insect of coconut in most of the Asian countries. There…

Red Palm Weevil (RPW) Rhynchophorus ferrugineus is a serious pest attacking different species of palm trees like Coconut, Oil palm. The larvae are the most destructive…

Rhinoceros beetle pest population occurs round the year but maximum during the June – Sept. The adult is a stout beetle measuring 30-40 mm in…

Bud rot is a fatal disease of the coconut palm, characterized by the rotting of the terminal bud and the surrounding tissues. It affects the…

Rugose Spiralling Whitefly (RSW) (Aleurodicus rugioperculatus Martin) is an invasive pest on coconut reported from Pollachi, Tamil Nadu and Palakkad, Kerala during July-August 2016. Reported…