A new s<\/span>pecies of insect named \u201cThrips Parvispinus<\/strong>\u201d is damaging the chilli crop in several states in south India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Thrips Parvispinus is an invasive insect species from Indonesia. It was first discovered in India in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n The insect species is <\/span>affecting the plants at the flowering stage and stunting the growth of fruits.<\/span><\/p>\n Each female Thrips lays eggs through Parthenogenesis (without requiring the male) and sucks the sap of leaf, flower and also the fruit, causing extensive damage to the crop within no time<\/p>\n The indiscriminate use of pesticides by farmers, knowingly or unknowingly, has been the main reason for this insect developing resistance to pesticides and their \u2018natural enemies\u2019 in the field being terminated.<\/span><\/p>\n Scientists are advising farmers to implement integrated pest management practices<\/strong> like spraying neem oil and using bio-pesticides as an immediate remedy.<\/p>\n Farmers are being advised not to use synthetic pyrethroids, organophosphates and other growth-enhancing fertilisers<\/strong>, which would only aggravate the situation further<\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>Insect hits 9L acres of chilli crop in south India; experts point to use of pesticide<\/b>\u201d<\/b> published in<\/span> Indian Express <\/b>on 13th<\/sup> Dec 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the news? A new species of insect named \u201cThrips Parvispinus\u201d is damaging the chilli crop in several states in south India.\u00a0 What is Thrips Parvispinus? Thrips Parvispinus is an invasive insect species from Indonesia. It was first discovered in India in 2015. The insect species is affecting the plants at the flowering stage… Continue reading Insect hits 9L acres of chilli crop in south India; experts point to use of pesticide<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-153242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700776871,"cached_date":1704822170},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Thrips Parvispinus?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is the reason for the spread of this invasive insect species?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is the solution to this problem?<\/h5>\n