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Pest guides
Know what is eating your crop. Each guide shows how to identify the pest, how to check for it, when it is worth acting, and what actually works.
Compiled from published agronomic references including FAO and CABI. A spray is often just called mushonga — the farming glossary explains the words and the measures.
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Insect
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African armyworm Spodoptera exempta -
Amaranth leaf webber Spoladea recurvalis -
Antestia bug Antestiopsis thunbergii -
Aphids Aphididae -
Bagrada bug Bagrada hilaris -
Bagworms -
Banana weevil Cosmopolites sordidus -
Bean fly Ophiomyia phaseoli -
Beet leaf miner Pegomya hyoscyami -
Bollworm complex -
Cabbage aphid Brevicoryne brassicae -
Cabbage webworm Hellula undalis -
Capsids (mirid bugs) Sahlbergella singularis -
Carrot fly Chamaepsila rosae -
Cashew stem and root borer Plocaederus ferrugineus -
Cassava mealybug Phenacoccus manihoti -
Cereal stem borers -
Citrus leafminer Phyllocnistis citrella -
Citrus psyllid Trioza erytreae -
Coffee berry borer Hypothenemus hampei -
Coffee leaf miner Leucoptera coffeella
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Cotton aphid Aphis gossypii -
Cotton stainers Dysdercus spp. -
Cowpea aphid Aphis craccivora -
Cucumber beetles Aulacophora spp. -
Cutworms Agrotis ipsilon -
Diamondback moth Plutella xylostella -
Eggplant fruit and shoot borer Leucinodes orbonalis -
Eldana stalk borer Eldana saccharina -
Enset root mealybug Cataenococcus ensete -
Fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda -
False codling moth Thaumatotibia leucotreta -
Flea beetles -
Fruit flies Bactrocera dorsalis -
Grasshoppers -
Jassids (leafhoppers) -
Jute semilooper Anomis sabulifera -
Leaf miners Liriomyza spp. -
Leaf-eating caterpillar -
Legume pod borer Maruca vitrata -
Mango hopper Idioscopus spp. -
Mango seed weevil Sternochetus mangiferae -
Mealybugs -
Melon fly Zeugodacus cucurbitae -
Millet head miner Heliocheilus albipunctella -
Mosquito bug (Helopeltis) Helopeltis -
Nettle caterpillars -
Niger seed weevil -
Noorda budworm Noorda moringae -
Oil palm leaf miner Coelaenomenodera lameensis -
Papaya mealybug Paracoccus marginatus -
Pod fly Melanagromyza obtusa -
Pod-sucking bugs Clavigralla tomentosicollis -
Potato tuber moth Phthorimaea operculella -
Red palm weevil Rhynchophorus ferrugineus -
Red teff worm Mentaxya ignicollis -
Rhinoceros beetle Oryctes monoceros -
Rhizome scale Aspidiella hartii -
Rice bugs Leptocorisa oratorius -
Rice gall midge Orseolia oryzivora
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Scale insects -
Sesame capsule borer Antigastra catalaunalis -
Sesame gall midge Asphondylia sesami -
Shoot borer -
Sorghum midge Stenodiplosis sorghicola -
Sorghum shoot fly Atherigona soccata -
Spiny bollworm Earias vittella / Earias insulana -
Sunflower head moth Homoeosoma nebulella -
Sweetpotato weevil Cylas puncticollis -
Taro beetle Papuana -
Teff shoot fly Atherigona -
Termites Macrotermes -
Thrips Thrips tabaci -
Tobacco budworm Chloridea virescens -
Tomato leafminer Phthorimaea absoluta -
White grubs -
Whitefly Bemisia tabaci -
Yam beetle Heteroligus meles
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