Insect pest control

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• Insects are harmful for crops plants.
• Insects attack the crops in three ways:-

1. Chewing insect
2. sucking insect
3. Internal feeders

Chewing insects

• It destroy the root steam and leaf by cut it with its chewing mouth.
• eg:- locusts, grasshoppers, caterpillars etc

Sucking insect

• Sucking insects suck the sap of cell of plants.
• eg:- aphides, leaf hoppers, plant bugs etc

Internal feeders

• Internal feeders lives inside the plants .
• They are called borrowers if they live inside the twigs or roots.
• They are called weevils if they attack fruits and seeds.
• eg: grubs, termites etc

Methods of insect controlling

• Root cutting insects are controlled by mixing insecticides in roots.
• Steam and leaf cutting insects can be controlled by spreading of insecticides on plants.
• All sap sucking insects can be controlled by the systemic insecticides.