What's eating my nam doc mai mango?

Nam Doc Mai, Thailand's premium export mango, is highly susceptible to mango hopper at flowering and to Oriental fruit fly in its thin-skinned ripening fruit. Scale and mealybug infest shoots and bark. Thrips can damage young leaves and flower panicles. Grown indoors, spider mites become the dominant pest in dry conditions.

Dense sap-sucking colonies on flower panicles cause extensive sooty mold and near-total flower drop in wet years Imidacloprid or thiamethoxam at panicle emergence; canopy thinning to reduce humidity; remove bark debris where hoppers shelter

Thin skin of Nam Doc Mai is easily punctured; larvae rot the flesh; fruit drops before harvest Methyl eugenol mass-trapping; individual fruit bagging from pea size; harvest at first color change

Silvery scarring on young leaves and panicles; distorted leaf tips; reduced photosynthesis on new flushes Spinosad spray at new-flush emergence; blue sticky traps for monitoring; avoid nitrogen over-fertilizing that drives flushes