Aphids (Myzus persicae and Aphis gossypii) (Sucking insect)

Wingless form is green, greenish, yellow or sometimes pinkish with a pair of well developed frontal tubercles. Winged form is with black head and green abdomen with dark patch on dorsal surface.

White-fly (Bemisia tabaci) (Sucking insect)

Tiny, soft, white winged insect found mostly on the lower side of the leaves and suck the sap from succulent leaves.

Thrips (Thrips palmi) (Sucking insect)

Sucking small, slender insect of <1 mm with fringed wings, adhered on the apical portion of the foliage. It will acquire tospo virus only at nymph stage but retain and transmit through out their life.

Leaf hoppers (Sucking insect)

Sucking insects and vector for phytoplasmal disease like Purple Top Roll (PTR) and Marginal Flavescence (MF).

Cut worms (Agrotis ipsilon, A. segetum) (Soil pest)

The larval stage causes damage. They are dark grey or dark brown with faint spot/line on the body.

White grub (Lachnosterna coriacea, Melolontha sp.) (Soil pest)

Fleshy, dingy white in color with brown head. Body is curved in an arch.

Tuber moth (Phthorimaea  operculella) (Storage insect)

Larva is 15 to 20 mm with pinkish body and dark brown head. Adult moth has narrow silver grey body with grey body with grayish, brown wings having dark specks. It deposits eggs near the eyes on stored tubers.

Epilachna beetle (Epilachna ocellata, E. vigintioctopunctata) (Defoliators)

Hemispherical, body measuring 5 to 8 mm, posses 12 to 28 black spots on its elytra. The other species have 12 such spots encircled by lighter colour.

Golden/cyst nematode (Globodera rostochiensis, G. pallida)

The cysts are of golden colour. Adult females are sessile globose or lemon shaped and males are motile and by depleting root cell contents an impair translocation system.