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Pests and Their Management in Mango

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More than 450 species of insects and mites are reported to attack mango in different parts of the world, and of them 260 insects and mites have been reported from India. Key pests include the leafhoppers Amritodes atkinsoni, Idioscopus nitidulus, and Idioscopus clypealis; mealybugs Rastrococcus invadens, Rastrococcus iceryoides, Rastrococcus mangiferae, and Formicoccus robustus; mealybugs alike Drosicha mangiferae; gall midges Dasineura amaramanjarae, Erosomyia indica, Procontarinia matteiana, and Procystiphora mangiferae; leaf webbers Orthaga exvinacea and Orthaga euadrusalis; shoot borer/leaf webber Chlumetia transversa; scale insects Pulvinaria polygonata, Aspidiotus destructor and Aulacaspis tubercularis, Caliothrips indicus, Rhipiphorothrips cruentatus, Scirtothrips dorsalis, and Thrips palmi; stem borer Batocera rufomaculata; bark-eating caterpillars Indarbela quadrinotata, I. tetraonis, and I. dea; fruit flies Bactrocera dorsalis, B. zonata, and B. correcta; nut weevil Sternochetus mangiferae; fruit borer Deanolis albizonalis; shoot gall psylla Apsylla cistellata; and termites Odontotermes obsesus, Microtermes obesi, O. assuthi, O. feae, Trinervitermes beimi, Coptotermes reimi, Heterotermes indicola, and Nevbevares gardneri and Eriophyes mangiferae. Management of the major mango pests is also discussed.

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Reddy, P.V.R., Mani, M., Rashmi, M.A. (2022). Pests and Their Management in Mango. In: Mani, M. (eds) Trends in Horticultural Entomology . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0343-4_16

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