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List of Identified Pests Affecting Asian Vegetables*

Vegetable	Symptoms	Part affected	Pest	Common name
Asian Herb	Yellow spots	Leaves	Myzus persicae	Green Peach Aphid
Asian Basil	Grey material on leaves, lack of vigour	Leaves	Tetranychus urticae	Two-spotted Mites
Asian Brassicas: Chinese Broccoli Chinese Cabbage Pak Choy Chinese Flowering Cabbage Shanghai Pak Choy Mustard Green	Dense populations cause leaves to curl around them	Leaves	Brevicoryne brassicae	Cabbage Aphid
	Young plants are cut off at or just below ground level	Roots & stem	Agrotis spp.	Cutworm
	Holes on leaves	Leaves	Plutella xylostella	Diamondback Moth
	Irregular holes in leaves and drop greenish brown fecal pellets	Leaves	Pieris rapae	Cabbage White Butterfly
	Whitish tunnels or leafmines	Leaves	Liriomyza spp.	Leafminer
	Holes on leaves	Leaves	Hellula hydralis	Cabbage Centre Grub: Larva Moth
	Holes on leaves	Leaves	Helicoverpa armigera	Corn Earworm (Heliothis)
	Holes on leaves	Leaves	Helicoverpa punctigera	Native Budworm (Heliothis)
	On the underside of leaves initially create a small window-like appearance by feeding without Completely penetrating the leaf	Leaves	Crocidolomia pavonana	Cabbage Cluster Caterpillar
	Feeding damage	Leaves	Spodoptera litura	Cluster Caterpillar
	Holes on leaves	Leaves	Chrysodeixis spp.	Loopers
	Malformation	Leaves	Nezara viridula	Green Vegetable Bug
	Feeding damage	Leaves	Mollusca	Slugs
	Plant deformed and the leaves curled, shriveled and yellowed	Leaves & roots	Lipaphis erysimi	Turnip Aphid
	Injure seedlings by feeding on roots or boring into stems	Roots & stem	Coleoptera: Elateridae	True Wireworm
	Injure seedlings by feeding on roots or boring into stems	Roots & stem	Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae	False Wireworm
	Plant deformed and the leaves curled, shriveled and yellowed	Leaves	Thrips tabaci	Onion Thrips
	Feeding damage	Leaves	Nysius vinitor	Rutherglen Bug
	Feed by sucking sap on the underside of the oldest leaves	Leaves	Myzus persicae	Green Peach Aphid
	Feeding damage	Stem	Listroderes difficillis	Vegetable Weevil
	Patches of stunted or dying plants, yellowing of foliage	Root	Meloidogynr spp.	Root Knot Nematode
Japanese Pumpkin	Leaf distortion and stunting, a sticky secretion	Sap and leaves		Aphids several species
		Seedling stems and leaves	Agrotis spp.	Cutworms
		Leaves, flowers and young fruit		Beetles several species
Okra	Rot	Root	Meloidogyne javanica	Root Knot Nematode
Shallot	Rot	Bulb	Rhizoglyphus spp. Tyrophagus spp.	Bulb Mites
Taro	Spots	Leaves	Tetranychus urticae	Two-spotted Mites
Watercress	Rusty spots	Leaves		Aphids
White Radish	Mottling	Leaves	Diaphania indica	Cucumber Moth

* For visual reference of Asian vegetables, see our Thesaurus.