Mango (Manako, Mangifera indica) Pest and Disease Image Gallery

Online quick reference of common problems for Hawaii’s mango growers

Scot C. Nelson <snelson@hawaii.edu>, University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM), College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR), Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences (PEPS)

Digital photos of several pest and disease problems of mangos in Hawaii are provided here to help mango growers diagnose their problems. Users of this site are encouraged to request or submit high-resolution images of mango problems by email. All images here are copyright-free and presented at 72 DPI.

How to use this site: Pests and mango health problems are listed in brown font below in alphabetical order, with different symptoms or other important aspects listed below each entry. Browse and click on an image associated with a particular problem. View, save or print the image. Click on your browser’s “back arrow” to return to this page. If you would like more information, please contact the University of Hawaii at Manoa Cooperative Extension Service.

I. General information:

Mango (Mangifera indica)

- General crop information from UH-CTAHR Crop Knowledge Master

- List of mango pests with information at UH-CTAHR Crop Knowledge Master

- Species profile for mango at www.agroforestry.net [PDF]

- Mango horticulture at UH-CTAHR Farmer’s Bookshelf

- Mango fact sheet, UH-CTAHR [PDF]

- Mango Conference Proceedings (Hawaii, for-sale publication)

II. Image Gallery:

Anthracnose (fungus, Colletotrichum gloeosporioides): | text and management information |

- On fruits (circular lesions): | 1 2 3 4 5 |

- On very young fruits | 1 2 |

- On mature fruits (“tear stain” lesions): | 1 2 3 |

- On leaves: | 1 2 |

- On very young leaves | 1 |

- On panicles: | 1 2 3 4 5 |

- On stem | 1 2 |

- Various symptoms on fruit in grocery store in Hilo, Hawaii 1 2 |

Gray leaf spot (fungus, Pestalotiopsis mangiferae = Pestalotia mangiferae)

- Leaf spots | 1 2 3 |

Mango decline (presumably caused by endophytic fungus or fungi):

- Trunk splitting and bleeding | 1 2 |

- Stem gummosis | 1 2 3 |

- Internal stem necrosis | 1 |

- Fruit splitting and bleeding | 1 |

- Internal fruit dry rot | 1 |

- Fruit mummies | 1 2 |

Powdery mildew (fungus, Oidium mangiferae): | text and management information |

- Leaf spots, blight, curling and distortion | 1 2 |

- Fungal mycelium and spores on leaf surface | 1 2 |

- Mildew on flowers and panicles | 1 2 3 |

- Mildew on flowers and panicles, young fruits | 1 |

Thrips (insect, redbanded thrips, Selenothrips rubrocinctus): | text | image of redbanded thrips at University of Florida |

- Damage to mango leaves | 1 |

Links: | The Farmer’s Bookshelf | Crop Knowledge Master | Hawaii Pesticide Information Retrieval System | CTAHR homepage | American Phytopathological Society List of Mango Diseases and Pathogens | Common Diseases of Mango in Florida [PDF] |

Pest & Disease Image Galleries: | Banana (Musa spp.) | Coffee (Coffea arabica) | Kava (Piper methysticum) | Papaya (Carica papaya) | Koa (Acacia koa) | Noni (Morinda citrifolia) | Palms |

Photo credits: Scot Nelson, Wayne Nishijima

Site design: Scot Nelson (2006)

Last site update: 18.October.2007

Notes: Photos are copyright-free for educational use. This site is under construction.