User:Vijayakumar halagatti

papaya mealy bug paracoccus marginatus Williams and Granara de Willink (Homoptera:Pseudococcidae)is creating hawak in papaya cultivation in south India specially in states like Karnataka, Kerala and Tamilnadu. This pest has alternate host like Hibiscus, Mulberry, Parthenium, Mestha and Brinjal. According to NBAII estimation the loss due to this pest is 1500 crores per annum. To control this pest NBAII(National Bureau Of Agriculturally Important Insects) has imported the parasitoid Acerophagous papayae Noyes & Schauff (Hymenoptera:Encyrtidae) from Mexico. NBAII has undertaken good programmes to control this pest and it succeeded. Many farmers are happy that parasitoid release were given promising control over papaya mealy bug. Other parasitoides of papaya mealy bug are Anagyrus loecki Noyes, Pseudleptomastix mexicana Noyes & Schauff. One predator also noticed on papaya mealy bug i.e., Spalgius epius (Lepidoptera:Lycanidae).