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Crop Protection :: Pests of Potato

Green Leaf Hopper Empoasca kerri

Symptoms of damage:

  • Tips of affected leaves become brown, turn upwards and get dried up

Identification of pest:

  • Egg: Elongated yellow-white egg is deposited in leaf vein.
  • Nymph: Pale-green, wedge shaped, winged pads extend up to the fifth abdominal segment
  • Adult: It is a wedge shaped and pale green insect

Management:

  • Spray dimethoate 30 EC or phosphomidon (Dimecron) 2ml/lit


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