Gyeongbuk Provincial Rural Development Administration urges caution against pepper virus vector ‘thrips’ in South Korea

An advisory was issued for thrips, a vector of the pepper virus, during the pepper self-growing season. The Gyeongbuk Provincial Agricultural Research and Extension Services Research Institute conducted a survey on thrips and aphids, which are virus vectors, among farmers growing their own pepper seedlings. As a result, the occurrence of thrips, which transmits color disease (tomato spotted wilting virus, TSWV), was confirmed from the 13th, and the cultivation of pepper seedlings was halted. Farmers were urged to be careful. For the occurrence of collard disease in nursery beds, it is important to monitor and early control because adult thrips carrying the virus infect healthy peppers after overwintering in the soil. For effective control, two or more dedicated chemicals with different mechanisms of action should be sprayed alternately, and for surveillance, yellow sticky traps should be installed inside the nursery facility to closely monitor the occurrence of thrips and damage ...