| Species: | Eutetranychus orientalis | |
| Genera: | Eutetranychus | |
| Family: | Tetranychidae | |
| Host Crops: | has a host range of more than 85 plant species including citrus species, peach, pear, amaltas, neem, shisham, papaya, almond, balsum, castor, chandni, cosmos, French bean, kaner, marigold, murraya etc. | |
| Nature of Damage: | Infestation starts along the midrib and later spread to lateral veins; chlorotic patches also appeared due to feeding. Mites suck the cell sap from upper surface of leaves. Such leaves turn yellow and later drop off. Infestation generally starts along with the midrib and then spreads to lateral veins. The mites also produce webbing on upper surface of leaves. | |
| Life Cycle: | The period from egg to adult stage is 12-13 days. The larval, protonymphal and deutonymphal period is 1.4, 1.5 and 1.5 days, respectively. On an average, a female lays 51 eggs with an oviposition period of 5 days | |