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Damage (Common green capsid)

Adults and nymphs make small feeding punctures in leaves, mainly in the young leaves in shoot tips around the mid-vein. The punctures turn brown and eventually black. Leaves grow unevenly and become distorted and puckered. Nymphs also feed on young …

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Recognition (Common green capsid)

Adult 5.0-6.5 mm long. Bright green with a dusky yellow pubescence. Nymph Pale to bright green, tips of antennae orange-red. Fast moving Egg 1.3 mm long, banana-shaped, cream, smooth and shiny. Inserted into the stems of plants. Other pests with which the …

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Cultural and biological control (Common green capsid)

Cultural control measures can significantly reduce common green capsid outbreaks in orchards. Rootstock sucker growths, which often harbour the pest, should be removed and destroyed in winter. Unfortunately, other beneficial capsid bugs, such as …

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Monitoring (Common green capsid)

Common green capsid is usually most abundant at the edges of orchards next to hedgerows, woodland or alder windbreaks and especially on apple trees with rootstock sucker growths. The tender shoots of such sucker growths are favoured sites for oviposition …

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Forecasting (Common green capsid)

In the Netherlands, a phonological forecasting model has been developed for the common green capsid bug but it is not generally available. Work in the Netherlands has suggested that the time to monitor for the third instar nymphs which are most damaging …

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Chemical control (Common green capsid)

A spray of an approved insecticide should be applied promptly at petal fall if damaging infestations are detected. A full approval for spirotetramat (Batavia) on apples for the control of sucking insect pests will offer some control of common green …

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Natural enemies (Common green capsid)

Predatory insects and spiders Capsid bugs appear to have few natural enemies. They are preyed on by nabid bugs and spiders. Pathogenic fungi Outbreaks of pathogenic fungal diseases during wet periods in summer can greatly reduce capsid …

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