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Notes: [Subtitle: Proceedings of the First National Symposium on Pest Management in Horticultural Crops: Environmental Implications and Thrusts. Conference held at Bangalore, India, 15-17 October 1997.] Bombyx mori, fed on mulberry leaves affected by 'tukra' disease (transmitted by Maconellicoccus hirsutus) performed poorly compared with feeding healthy mulberry leaves from plots where the predator beetles Cryptolaemus montrouzieri were released two weeks before leaf harvest.