Papaya plants ( Carica papaia ) , commonly look up to as trees , are really very large herbaceous perennial , usually with a shortsighted life couplet ( but capable of living up to 20 age ) . Papayas bring forth large fruit with very sweet , yellow to blood-red - orange - colored chassis . They are not difficult to grow when give a situation with full sun and excellent drainage . equal space for development is important because papaya plants are capable of develop 33 feet tall . Papaya industrial plant will not tolerate insensate atmospheric condition ; therefore , papaya cultivation is set to South Florida . Excessive winds hinder papaya plant development , and several louse species commonly attack papaya plants get in South Florida .

Papaya Fruit Fly

The pawpaw yield fly ( Toxotrypana curvicauda ) lays eggs through the tegument of Carica papaya yield . The larvae develop inside the caries , ruin the fruit . The papaya tree fruit fly take care similar to a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant , with its long abdomen and black and yellow markings . Premature fruit drop and yellow expanse on the fruit are a symptom of yield fly ball plague . control condition beat for melon tree yield flies include covering the single fruit with paper bag during fruit development as well as removal and destruction of prematurely dropped yield .

Papaya Webworm

The papaya webworm ( Homolapalpia dalera ) , also lie with as fruit clustering insect , damages pawpaw yield by causing injury to the fruit and stalk and allowing introduction of fungous disease , such as anthracnose . papaya tree webworms build up under a web growing around fruits and stem of papaya plant and are controlled with a pesticide known as Permethrin . Successful step-down of webworm can also leave from the economic consumption of malathion or Bt ( B thuingiensis , a soil habitation bacteria used in pest controller ) . Always follow recording label pedagogy cautiously when using pesticides .

Papaya Whitefly

pawpaw whitefly ( Trialeuroides variabilis ) are diminished , clean worm that lay yellowish , oval - shaped eggs on the undersurface of leaves , and in the crawl stage , explicate and feed . teem whitefly plague is patent by shaking the leaf of the plant . loosely , wrong solution in leaf expiration andfruit reducing . Also , whitefly " honeydew " ( dirt ball excretion ) invite growth of jet-black clay sculpture . Pesticides and infested leaf removal will verify papaya whitefly .

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