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Cruciferous crops include cabbage, cauliflower, knol khol, broccoli, radish, turnip, beet root, etc. These vegetables are ravaged by the diamondback moth Plutella xylostella; leaf webber Crocidolomia pavonana; stem borer Hellula undalis; cabbage butterflies Pieris rapae, Pieris brassicae and Pieris canidia; tobacco caterpillar Spodoptera litura; cabbage green semilooper Trichoplusia ni; aphids Brevicoryne brassicae, Lipaphis erysimi and Myzus persicae; painted bug Bagrada hilaris; mustard sawfly Athalia proxima; flea beetles Monolepta signata, Phyllotreta chotanica, P. downsei, P. vittata and P. cruciferae and Chaetocnema basalis; and cabbage leaf miner Liriomyza brassicae. Methods of management for the key pests are also discussed.
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Moorthy, P.N.K., Prasannakumar, N.R., Mani, M., Saroja, S., Ranganath, H.R. (2022). Pests and Their Management in Cruciferous Vegetables. In: Mani, M. (eds) Trends in Horticultural Entomology . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0343-4_41
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