Sap Sucking Pests
Sap suckers include these common pests like aphids, leafhoppers, thrips, whitefly, Mealy bugs, soft and dry scale Insect, bugs and mites.
They have puncturing and sucking mouth parts and live on plant juices.
Plants may not die usually with the moderate infestation of these pests but the major issue is not just sap loss.
Like mosquitoes drain out our blood these drain vital plant juices. And just like the mosquitoes, they deposit disease causing viruses. This is when we have trouble.
The holes they make can also be an entry point for parasitic fungus too.
We will never succeed chasing off the sucking pests with repellents. Encourage natural predators to manage your plants by judiciously using repellents and not to make your plants pampered and excessively juicy by indiscriminate manuring.. especially excessive Nitrogen.
We can keep an effective control using Biological control methods.
For Sucking pests we can use Verticillium lecanii spores – spraying 20 gm in one ltr water on affected plants. To make the pests wet first, we have to spray soapnut water(not chemical soaps even Kadhi soap is a chemical)
One nut soaked squeezed filtered and diluted to make one ltr is the quantity needed.
For heavy Infestation, brushing off clean the affected areas while you spray soapnut water is an affective method before spraying spores.
Verticillium laccani can be repeated once in 15 days.
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