Litchi: Prevention from fruit borer pest

Be it children or the elderly, everyone likes the taste of sweet and juicy litchi. But to get high quality fruits it is necessary to protect litchi from many pests. Leaf wrapper insect, bark eating insect, stem borer insect, fruit borer insect, gray mite, semilooper insect, litchi seed borer insect, etc. are infested in litchi. Among all these pests, the fruit borers cause the most damage to litchi fruits. If you also do litchi cultivation, then see the identification of this pest, symptoms of outbreak and methods of control from here.

identification of fruit borer

• The female insects lay eggs on the underside of leaves or lychee fruits.

• The larvae of the fruit borer are milky white in colour.

• The body and body of the larva are slender and the head is light brown in colour.

How do fruit borer pests harm litchi?

• The larva feeds on the inside of the fruit by piercing it.

• Infestation of insects hinders the development of fruits.

• Black spots appear near the stalk of the affected fruit.

How to control fruit borer pest?

• Remove the fallen fruits from the orchard. This can control the increase in the number of adult insects.

• First, sever the affected branches from the tree. This can prevent the spread of the pest to a great extent.

• If you want to control the pest by biological method, then sprinkle 5 ml neem oil per liter of water.

• By spraying 5 ml country cutter in 15 liters of water, the fruit borer can be completely controlled.

• Spraying by mixing 1 ml karate or 1 ml allanto per liter of water can also get rid of this pest.

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• Click here to learn how to protect litchi seeds from fungal diseases.

We hope that the information given in this post will prove to be important for you. By adopting the medicines and other measures mentioned in this post, you can easily get control over the fruit borer pest. If you liked this information, then like this post and also share it with other farmers. So that other farmer friends can also save litchi plants from fruit borer pests. Ask us your questions related to litchi cultivation through comments.