The 3 entries in Laisha's encyclopedia that attack Lablab, 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
Legume pod borer (Maruca pod borer)Maruca vitrataInsect · The legume pod borer is a moth whose caterpillars web together the flowers, buds and young pods of cowpea,…
Pod-sucking bugs of cowpeaClavigralla tomentosicollis and other pod-sucking bugsInsect · A group of true bugs suck the developing seeds of cowpea through the pod wall. Attacked pods shrivel and dry…
Fungal diseases
Asian soybean rustPhakopsora pachyrhiziFungal disease · A rust fungus that can strip soybean plants of their leaves within weeks of first appearing, before the pods…
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