Pear Pests

Pests of National Significance

Insect Pests

• San Jose-Scale: Quadraspidiotus perniciosus Comstock (Hemiptera: Diaspididae)
• Cock Chaffer beetle: Melolontha melolontha Fab (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae
• Pear psylla: Cacopsylla pyricola (Foerster) (Hemeptera: Psyllidae),
• Green peach aphis: Myzus persicae (Sulzer) (Hemiptera: Aphididae)
• Chaffer beetle: Protactia neglecta (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae)
• Stem borer: Aeolesthes sarta Solsky (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
• Root borer: Dorysthenes huegelii Redt. (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

Diseases

• Scab: Venturia pirina (Cooke) Wint
• Seedling blight: Sclerotium rolfsii Sacc.
• Hairy root: Agrobacterium rhizogenes Conn
• Crown gall: Agrobacterium tumefaciens Smith & Townsend
• White root rot: Dematophora necatrix Berl. exPrill.
• Collar rot: Phytophthora cactorum (Lebert& Cohn) J. Schröt
• Powdery mildew: Podosphaera leucotricha (Ellis &Everh.) E.S. Salmon
• Leaf spot: Mycosphaerella sp., Alternaria sp

Weeds

Broad leaf

Grasses

• Bermuda grass: Cynodon dactylon L. (Poaceae)
• Cogon grass: Imperata cylindrical (L.) Raeusch. (Poaceae)
• Blanket grass: Axonopus compressus (Sw.) Beauv. (Poaceae)
• Large crabgrass: Digitaria sanguinalis L. (Scop.) (Poaceae)
• Knot grass: Paspalum distichum L. (Poaceae)

Sedges

• Purple nutsedge: Cyperus rotundus L. (Cyperaceae)
• Flat sedge: Cyperus iria L. (Cyperaceae)

Pest of Regional Significance

Insect Pests

• Codling moth: Cydia pomonella L. (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
• Thrips: Taeniothrips sp. (Thysanoptera: Thripidae)
• Mites: Eutetranychus orientalis Klein, Panonychus ulmi Koch Tetranychus urticae Koch (Arachnida: Tetranychidae)
• Flat headed borer: Sphenoptera lafertei (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
• Leopard moth: Zeuzeram multistrigata (Lepidoptera: Cossidae)
• Leaf roller: Archips argyrospilus Walker (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
• Green weevil: Phyllobuis sp. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
• May, June beetle: Adoretus sp. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
• Green capsid: Lygus pabulinus Hahn (Hemiptera: Miridae)
• Green aphis: Aphis pomi L. (Hemiptera: Aphididae)
• Stik bug: Euschistus conspersus Uhler (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae),
• Tent hairy caterpillar: Malacosoma indica Walker (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae)
• Hairy caterpillar: Euproctis sp. (Lepidoptera: Lymantridae)
• Bark eating caterpillar: Indarbelaqua drinotata Walker (Lepidoptera: Metarbelidae)
• Fruit fly: Bactrocera dorsalis Hendel (Diptera:Tephritidae)

Diseases

• Dieback: Colletotrichum spp.
• Virus diseases
• Mycoplasma diseases
• Shoot/fruit blight and bark canker: Botryodiplodia theobromae Pat. and Phoma glomerata (Corda) Wollenw. & Hochapfel
• Root rot and sapwood rot: Polyporus palustris Berkeley et Curtis, Ganoderma lucidum (Curtis) P. Karst, Schizophyllum commune Fries

Rodent pests

• Smaller bandicoot: Bandicota bengalensis L
• Soft furred orchard rat: Melardia meltada Thomas
• Vole: Alticola sp.

IPM for Pear

To know the IPM practices for Pear, click here.

Source:NIPHM; Directorate of Plant Protection, Quarantine & Storage