**7.2 Brinjal**

#### *7.2.1 Important pests*

Fruit and shoot borer (*Leucinodes orbonalis*), jassids (*Amrasca biguttula biguttula*), hadda beetle (*Epilachna vigintioctopunctata*), whitefly (*B. tabaci*), aphids (*A. gossypii*), spider mites (*Tetranychus spp.)* grey weevils (*Myllocerus subfasciatus*), tobacco cut worm (*S. litura*), stem borer (*Euzophera perticella*), thrips (*T. palmi*), brinjal lacewing bug (*Urentius hystericellus*).
