Editorial photo #10603048 Human Interest
Animal India - Tussock Moth - Moringa Oleifera
The Moringa oleifera is a medicinal plant, its antimicrobial activities, being a source of nutrition for human food and animal feed, and other environmental, and industrial uses - make this crop very important. Cultivation of Moringa oleifera is spreading across the world under different climatic conditions that may expose the plants to different pests and diseases. The present paper highlights the status of pests and diseases of moringa. Moringa plants suffer from fruit rots, stem rots, root rot, twig canker, etc. Major pests include pod flies, budworms, hairy caterpillars, red mites, etc. A Tussock moth (Lymantriinae : Erebidae) caterpillar eats and destroys the leaves of a tree at Tehatta, West Bengal; India on 06/10/2023. (Photo by Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto)
