Legumes pod bug (Anoplocnemis curvipes ,Coreidae, Hemiptera )

Damaging stage: Nymph and Adult

Damaging symptoms :

• Necrosis, pod malformation, empty pod
• Premature drying , shriveling of seed,  loss of germination.

Identification

Egg: brown color, laying singly or clustered on the upper surface of the leaf. Nymph: mimic ant, hiding from ant.

Adult dark-colored trout bodies, leaf-footed bugs.

Management

• Collect and destroy
• Resistance varieties, early planting
• Intercropping with sorghum or green gram is reported to reduce pop
• Intercropping with maize which is commonly practiced is small farmers is said to cause increasing in pod-sucking bugs and therefore is not recommended.
• Predator:assassin bug, pprayingmantids, spider
• Apply phosphorus (30kg/ha)which reduces the pod sucking
• Pyrethrin-basedd insecticide.
• Commercial neem