Hadda beetle | pest of egg plant | Pest management

Hadda beetle | pest of egg plant | Pest management
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Hadda or spotted beetle:
Symptoms of damage: 🍀
- Scrapping of chlorophyll
- Skeletonization and drying of leaves
Identification of pest: 🪲
Eggs: Cigar shaped, yellow in colour
Grub: Yellowish bearing six rows of longitudinal spines.
Pupa: Yellowish with spines on the posterior part and anterior portion being devoid of spines.
Adult: 14 spots on each elytra, deep red.
Management:
- Collect damaged leaves with grubs and egg masses and destroy them
- Shake plants to dislodge grubs, pupae and adults and destroy
- Conserve natural enemies in the brinjal ecosystem
- Spray neem based NSKE 5%, Bt insecticide or entomopathogenic fungi.
- Spray Carbaryl 50 WP @ 3g/L.