The 5 entries in Laisha's encyclopedia that attack Mung bean, 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

• Bean fly (bean stem maggot)Ophiomyia phaseoliInsect · The bean fly is a tiny shiny black fly whose maggots tunnel down from the leaves into the stems of young bean…
• Cowpea aphid (black legume aphid)Aphis craccivoraInsect · The cowpea aphid is a small, shiny black aphid that forms dense colonies on the growing tips, flowers and…
• 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,…
• Pulse beetles (bruchids)Callosobruchus maculatus and Callosobruchus chinensisInsect · Pulse beetles are small beetles whose grubs develop inside stored seeds of cowpea, chickpea, mung bean, black…

Virus diseases

• Yellow mosaic of mung bean, black gram and soybean (YMD)Mungbean yellow mosaic India virus and Mungbean yellow mosaic virusVirus disease · Yellow mosaic is the most destructive disease of mung bean and black gram in South and Southeast Asia, and a…

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