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The scientific name of brinjal fruit and shoot borer is
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Pests of Vegetable Crops & Management
- Brinjal Fruit and Shoot Borer (BSFB): The most destructive pest of eggplant/brinjal throughout South Asia, belonging to Crambidae/Pyralidae (Lepidoptera).
- Scientific Name: Leucinodes orbonalis Guenée.
- Damage Profile: Larvae bore into tender shoots causing terminal drooping and wilting; later they bore into fruits, plugging exit holes with excrement.
- Other Species: Earias insulana is the spiny bollworm of cotton; Chilo partellus is maize/sorghum stem borer.
- Correct Option: Option 3 (Leucinodes orbonalis).
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