Practice Abstract 45 - Chick pea cultural guide – Portugal – PESTS

Short title (native language): 
Chick pea cultural guide – Portugal – PESTS

Short summary for practitioners (native language): 
The bollworm (Helicoverpa armigera) is the pest that causes most damage to chickpeas and the larvae of which are polyphagous and feed on a large range of the most important crops. The larvae mainly attack the grain in formation stage and also some flowers at the beginning of fruiting.
If the population was not controlled, the damages can be devastating and the production loss values can reach at 50% or more.
So that’s why it’s important monitor the pest early on. Pest monitoring can be made with pheromone traps that will capture the adults. Depending on the number of captured adult, adopt the strategy of combat with the approved active ingredients.
Important, some bollworm populations show some resistance to pyrethroid insecticides.

To control de bollworm´s population you can use approved insecticides:

This pest control can also be done with strategies that includes Bacillus thuringiensis sp. however in Portugal there is not a product of this type approved for chickpeas.

The leaf-miner is another pest that attacks chickpeas but in Portugal the crop damages are practically non-existent.
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