Pest Lists and Their Damages on Mango, Dragon Fruit and Atemoya in Jeju, Korea
2013
Choi, K.S., Rural Development Administration, Jeju, Republic of Korea. | Yang, J.Y., Rural Development Administration, Jeju, Republic of Korea. | Park, Y.M., National Plant Quarantine Service, Incheon, Republic of Korea | Kim, S.R., Seoul National University, Seoul , Republic of Korea | Choi, H.R., Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea | Lyu, D.P., Sanji University, Wonju, Republic of Korea | Kim, D.S., Jeju National University, Jeju, Republic of korea
Tropical plants of mango(Mangefera indica), dragon fruit(Hylocereus undatus), and atemoya(Annona cherimola × A. squamosa) are cultivated in Jeju, Korea. A pest survey on those tropical fruits was conducted from 2008 to 2011. Major pests of Mango were thrips, aphid, mealybug, and lepidoptera species. Thrips palmi and Scirtothrips dorsalis were the most important pests in mango fields. T. palmi mainly injured the leaf but S. dorsalis injured the leaf and fruit. Lepidoptera mango pests injured leaves but some larva of Adoxophyes honmai injured fruit surface around the stem. Aphid pests, Aphis gossypii and Myzus persicae, injured the shoots and Pseudococcus kraunhiae occurred on the stem and fruit. Ant species, A. gossypii, and S. litura, were important pests on dragon fruit. Ants and aphid occurred and injured the stem, flower, and fruit. Spodoptera litura larva severely injured the stem. Among the atemoya pests, S. litura and Homona magnanima caused severe damage.
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