Pests of Field Crops in Southern Africa

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The purpose of this site is to provide farmers, technical field staff and students of agriculture with general information on pests of common field crops in Southern Africa and their control.

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Common pests affecting many crops are treated separately and can be accessed directly from the left menu. In case you don't know the pest or it is not listed then you can access information through the crop where the pest problem has been observed.

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Diana E. Taylor

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PESTS AFFECTING MANY CROPS	MAJOR CROPS AND THEIR PESTS
African bollworm	Beans
Crickets	Cabbage family
Cutworms	Cotton
Dusty surface beetle	Cucurbits
Elegant grasshopper	Groundnuts
False codling moth	Maize
Liriomyza leafminer	Onion
Locusts	Paprika
Mosquito bug	Peas
Pink stem borer	Potatoes
Red spider mites	Sorghum
Snout beetles	Soyabeans
Stinkbugs	Sunflower
Termites	Tobacco
Thrips	Tomato
Whitefly	Wheat and Barley
Whitegrubs and Chafer beetles