Serious mango pest established in Hawaii.
Plant Pest News 1 :1
Abstract : Procystiphora mangiferae (Felt) (Dasineura mangiferae), a serious pest of mango in India, is recorded for the first time in Hawaii, where it was collected from mango flowers at Hilo, Hawaii Island, in January 1981. The eggs were laid in the folds between the sepals and petals of the flower bud, and larval feeding prevented the flower from opening and developing and the fruit from forming. Infested buds took the form of a long pointed gall, in which pupation took place. In India, the number of generations varied according to the length of the flowering period. In view of the comparatively small scale of mango cultivation in Hawaii, and the impossibility of P. mangiferae being spread with fruit, no control measures are envisaged at present on the island.