•Distribution : Africa, Japan
•Hoat plant : citrus & Various other species of the family rutaceae.
Identification
•Egg : pale or greenish yellow when freshly laid, but later turn brown, becoming dark gary just before hatching. – Female lay eggs : 75 – 120
•Caterpillar : full grown caterpillar is yellowish green, horn – like structure on dorsal side of the last body segment, 40 mm long & 6.5 mm wide.
•Adult : Beautiful butterfly, 28 mm length & 94 mm in wing expanse. Head and thorax are black
Life cycle
Damage
•Only the caterpillar cause damage by eating the leaves.
Management
•Hand picking
•Spraying of entomogenous fungus, Bacillus thuriengiensis Berliner, nematod DD -136 strain or neem seed extract (3%) also gives quite high motality of caterpillar.
•Spary 1.45 liter of endosulfan 35EC or quinalphos 25EC during April (After fiuit set) & Oct.
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