Legumes
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Southern green stink bug
Green shield shaped bugs that smell when touched suck the young pods, which turn warty, bent or fall.
Crops it attacks
Where the damage shows
On fruits, pods or nuts
When to act
Twice a week check 20 plants for bugs and the raft shaped egg masses under the leaves. Act when you find more than 1 bug in every 5 plants on okra pods or green tomatoes.
Before you spray
No product names this bug on okra or tomato labels yet. Handpick the bugs in the cool morning, crush the egg rafts, keep weeds down and rotate crops.
How to prevent it
- Handpick the bugs in the cool morning, when they are slow, and drop them in soapy water.
- Crush egg rafts and the clusters of young nymphs under the leaves.
- Keep weeds and legume volunteers down around the field.
- Rotate okra and tomato with crops the bug likes less, such as leafy greens.
- A strip of an early sown legume or sesbania nearby draws the bugs away. Clear it once they gather.
Natural enemies and biological help
- Egg wasps such as Trissolcus basalis, tachinid flies, spiders and ants attack the eggs and nymphs.
Not sure it is this one?
Many pests look alike. Send a photo to Anee, the smart farm technician in anee.io. She reads it with your crop, its age and the weather, and tells you what it most likely is and what to do first. In Tagalog or English.