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
• Triozhophos 2 ml+ 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
• Spray application of dichlorovas 76 WSC 1ml/lit + fish oil rosin soap 25 g/lit
• Release Cryptolaemous montrouzieri beetles @ 10/tree.