The 15 entries in Laisha's encyclopedia that attack Eggplant, grouped by type. Each page covers identification, life cycle, the conditions that favour it, action thresholds and integrated management.

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Insect pests

• Colorado potato beetleLeptinotarsa decemlineataInsect · A striped yellow-and-black beetle whose humpbacked red larvae can strip potato fields of leaves in a few…
• Cotton aphid (melon aphid)Aphis gossypiiInsect · A small aphid, from pale yellow to almost black, that forms dense colonies under the leaves of cotton,…
• Eggplant fruit and shoot borer (brinjal borer)Leucinodes orbonalisInsect · The most destructive pest of eggplant (brinjal) in South and Southeast Asia. Its pink caterpillars bore into…
• Papaya mealybugParacoccus marginatusInsect · A small yellow mealybug covered in white wax that forms dense colonies on papaya, cassava, hibiscus, mulberry…
• Silverleaf whitefly (Bemisia whitefly)Bemisia tabaciInsect · A tiny white sap-sucking insect that sits on the undersides of leaves of cotton, vegetables, cassava and…
• Tomato leaf miner (Tuta absoluta)Phthorimaea absolutaInsect · A tiny moth whose caterpillars tunnel inside tomato leaves, stems and fruit. Within a few generations a crop…
• Western flower thripsFrankliniella occidentalisInsect · A thrips barely visible to the eye that lives in flowers and young leaves of vegetables, fruit and…

Mites

• Two-spotted spider mite (red spider mite)Tetranychus urticaeMite · A mite smaller than a pinhead that sucks the contents of leaf cells, leaving pale speckles, bronzed leaves…

Nematodes

• Potato cyst nematodes (golden and pale)Globodera rostochiensis and Globodera pallidaNematode · Two closely related nematodes that live in potato roots and leave behind tough cysts, each full of eggs, that…
• Root-knot nematodesMeloidogyne incognitaNematode · Root-knot nematodes are microscopic worms that enter roots and turn them into swollen, knotted galls, so…

Fungal diseases

• Anthracnose of chilli (fruit rot and dieback)Colletotrichum scovillei and Colletotrichum truncatumFungal disease · Anthracnose is the most damaging fungal disease of chilli and sweet pepper fruit in the tropics and…
• Early blight of potato and tomatoAlternaria solaniFungal disease · Early blight is a common leaf disease of potato and tomato that makes dark brown spots with rings like a…

Oomycete diseases (water moulds)

• Damping-off of seedlingsPythium aphanidermatum and other soil-borne pathogensOomycete disease · Damping-off is the death of seeds and young seedlings caused by soil-borne water moulds and fungi, above all…

Bacterial diseases

• Bacterial wilt (Ralstonia wilt, brown rot of potato)Ralstonia solanacearum species complexBacterial disease · A soil- and water-borne bacterium that blocks the water-conducting tissue of tomato, potato, eggplant,…

Physiological disorders

• Blossom-end rotPhysiological calcium disorder (no pathogen)Physiological disorder · Blossom-end rot is a dark, sunken, leathery patch at the flower end of tomato, pepper, watermelon, squash and…