This chapter focuses on the various pests of minor fruit crops, such as avocado (Persea americana), breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis), caimito (Chrysophyllum cainito), carambola (Averrhoa carambola), durian (Durio zibethinus), jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus), lanzones (Lansium domesticum), ...
Author(s)
Muniappan, R.; Shepard, B. M.; Carner, G. R.; Ooi, P. A. C.
ISBN
2012 CABI (H ISBN 9781845939519)
Spiders are important predatory organisms in the orchards. Keeping in view their role in the natural biological control, the present studies were conducted from May 2012 to October 2019 in orchards belonging to 21 fruit crops, viz. apple (Malus sp.), amla (Phyllanthus emblica), citrus (Citrus...
Author(s)
Sandeep Singh; Reshmi Sekhar; Sunil, J. K.
Publisher
Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India
Citation
Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2020, 90, 9, pp 1695-1701
Thirty-one fruit and vegetable species were fumigated with ethylene dibromide (EDB) at 8 g/m3 for 2 h or methyl bromide (MB) at 32 g/m3 for 3.5 h. Avocados, cashews, Inga paterno, muskmelons, capsicums and Syzygium malaccense were injured by both EDB and MB, whereas Diospyros digyna, cucumbers, ...
Author(s)
Knight, R. J., Jr.; Spalding, D. H.; King, J. R.; Windeguth, D. L. von; Benschoter, C. A.; Burditt, J. R.; Fons, J.
Citation
Proceedings of the Tropical Region, American Society for Horticultural Science, 1980, 24, pp 117-125
Parasitoids are important natural control agents of tephritids and knowledge about the tritrophic relationships can support the management of these pests. This study aimed to estimate of parasitism indexes in fruit flies in 21 plant species and identify the species of parasitoids associated, in...
Author(s)
Sá, R. F. de; Castellani, M. A.; Nascimento, A. S. do; Ribeiro, A. E. L.; Moreira, A. A.
Publisher
Sociedade Brasileira de Fruticultura, Jaboticabal, Brazil
Citation
Revista Brasileira de Fruticultura, 2012, 34, 4, pp 1266-1269
A list of the host plants of Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) based on the records of the INIA-CENIAP Museum is given: Spondias mombin, Mangifera indica, Anacardium occidentale, Annona muricata, Chrysobalanus icaco, Terminalia catappa, Persea americana, Malpighia glabra, Ficus carica, ...
Author(s)
Morales, P.; Cermeli, M.; Godoy, F.; Salas, B.
Publisher
Sociedad Venezolana de Entomologia, Facultad de Agronomia, UCV, Maracay, Venezuela
Citation
Entomotropica, 2004, 19, 1, pp 51-54
Mealybugs are economically important pests of several fruit crops world wide. Most of the mealybugs are highly polyphagous and inflict direct damage to fruit crops by feeding and some species act as vectors in the transmission of plant diseases. Nymphs and adult mealybugs suck the sap from the...
Publisher
Indian Society for the Advancement of Insect Science, Ludhiana, India
Citation
Journal of Insect Science (Ludhiana), 2014, 27, 1, pp 1-16
Oriental fruit flies, Bactrocera dorsalis being highly polyphagous, mobile and relatively long lived (∼3 months), the efficacy of area-wide management programs is mainly influenced by field fruit fly population levels. A study was conducted to understand the seasonal abundance and host shift...
Author(s)
Arthikirubha, A.; Jayanthi, P. D. K.; Sridhar, V.; Verghese, A.
Publisher
Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India
Citation
Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2017, 87, 11, pp 1460-1465
This issue presents studies on the leaf area estimation in lychees by means of allometric relationships, dehydration and spraying of buriti (Mauritia flexuosa), quality index and harvest maturity of Eugenia cibrata fruits, Gonodonta (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) species defoliating sugar apple and...
Publisher
Sociedade Brasileira de Fruticultura, Jaboticabal, Brazil
Citation
Revista Brasileira de Fruticultura, 2017, 39, Special Issue, pp unpaginated
Fruit fly species, their host plants and their parasitoids were studied in Ilha de Santana, Amapá State, Brazil. Forty four samples from 13 host species (Spondias mombin, Mangifera indica, Psidium guajava, Averrhoa carambola, Passiflora sp., Malpighia punicifolia, Pouteria caimito, Genipa...
Author(s)
Silva, R. A. da; Xavier, S. L. O.; Souza Filho, M. F. de; Silva, W. R. da; Nascimento, D. B. do; Deus, E. da G. de
Publisher
Instituto Biológico, São Paulo, Brazil
Citation
Arquivos do Instituto Biológico (São Paulo), 2007, 74, 2, pp 153-156
Recently, occurrence of rugose spiralling whitefly, Aleurodicus rugioperculatus, was noticed in Purba Midnapur and Howrah districts of West Bengal during April 2019 on coconut (Cocos nucifera), banana (Musa spp.), mango (Mangifera indica), sapota (Manilkara zapota), Hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis...
Author(s)
Selvaraj, K.; Sumalatha, B. V.; Debrata Pal
Publisher
Coconut Development Board, Kochi, India
Citation
Indian Coconut Journal, 2019, 62, 8, pp 11-12