Below mentioned are pests’ management practices to be followed: • Clean cultivation with optimum plant density and good drainage system. • Collateral host plant such as, Guava, Sapota, and Pomegranate for black fly and curry leaf for Psylla pest should not be grown near the citrus orchard. • Collection and destruction of various stages of pest, both in nursery and orchard. • Pruning of leaf miner infested branches or curled dried leaves by Psylla or sooty mould shoots by black flies should be done preferably during winter. • Fallen fruits should be destroyed by burying them deep in the soil. • Generation of smoke (Burn agricultural waste or leaves) in the orchard for 2 hours in the evening repels adults of fruit sucking moths • The basin around tree trunk should be earthen up. Sticky band smeared with oil should be tied around the tree trunk. This will control the attack of mealy bug • Poison baiting of fruit sucking moth - Orange juice in 2 liters of water can be placed in a tray with a bulb of 60 watts above the tray. • Release of Trichogramma chilonis at 500 adult per tree effectively controls lemon butterfly pest. • Remove the wooden frass present in between the joints of the tree trunk by bark eating caterpillar and insert a cotton wad soaked in petrol or kerosene at 10 ml. • Spray of neem seed kernel extract 5 % or 2 ml neem oil/litre of water give effective protection against leaf mine, black fly and scale insect. • Water stress aggravates the mite problem. Hence, the tree should be well irrigated particularly during the stress in late summer. • To check snail infestation, prepare poison bait by dissolving 2 kg Jaggery, 25 g yeast in 10 litres of water. Add wheat or paddy husk and mix well. Keep for about 10-12 hrs for fermentation. Add 100 g Methomyl. Snail will be attracted and die after feeding on such poison bait. Source: KVK, Mokokchung, Nagaland If you find this information useful, click on the yellow thumbs up sign under the photo and also share this with your farmer friends using the options given below.