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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.