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Agriculture · Q33

Agricultural Entomology

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 33

Q33

Fruit sucking moth lay eggs on

A.
Tinospera cardifolia
B.
Cocculus pendulus
C.
Cocculus hirsutus
D.
All of these
Answer

Answer: Option D

Solution

Answer: Option D
Solution:
Fruit sucking moths lay eggs on Tinospera cardifolia, Cocculus pendulus, and Cocculus hirsutus.
The fruit-sucking moth is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Frederic Moore in 1877.
Larva has pinkish-grey dorsal surface suffused darker to a V-shaped yellow band. It has black spiracles and marbled white-ringed rufous-orange ocellate marks with three ferrous lines crossing them. The adults are a pest on various fruits. They pierce the fruit to suck the juice.