Management of Mealy Bug in Cotton:-
- Heavy clustering of mealy bugs usually seen under surface of leaves as a thick mat with waxy secretion.
- Excrete copious amount of honey dew on which the fungus sooty mould grow.
- Affected plants appear sick and black, resulting reduced fruiting capacity.
Management
- Remove the alternate weeds hosts.
- Monitor the incidence regularly and look for crawler emergence.
- Take up the management at intial stage to get maximum control.
- Wherever necessary use neem based botanical insecticides such as neem oil @ 75 ml per pump or NSKE @ 75 ml per pump.
- Use of Dimethoate @ 30 ml/pump or Profenophos @ 40 ml/pump or Buprofezin @ 50 ml/pump may be adopted as an alternative.
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