Use of yellow cards
Management • Install yellow sticky traps before planting to monitor the movement of adult aphids • Use reflective mulches to repel aphids • Make the field weed free. • Spray insecticides with thiamethoxam, acetamiprid. Rotate classes of insecticides to minimize resistance of aphids to insecticides.
3. Broad mites ( Polyphagotarsonemus latus ) Mites are invisible with naked eye. Mites suck the sap by biting the underside of the leaves. First symptoms appear on young leaves and on terminal buds.
Broad Mites
White to yellow speckles on upper leaf surface
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