We'll be talking about pest and African pumpkin because pest on its own is the major challenge affecting the growth and survival of African pumpkin. The only way to make our African pumpkin grow very well is to know how to manage and maintain them starting from the very first day we planted the African pumpkin seed and waiting for germination. The management of our African pumpkin can easily start with how we can protect our African pumpkin from pest like insects so they don't attack and kill our vegetable.
Pests on its own are know as unwanted elements which attack, drain, affect, and then kill crops. pests inform of insects (whiteflies, beetle, caterpillars, fruit flies, thrips) all attack and kills African pumpkin in different ways. They attack African pumpkin as a means of survival for their own growth so by attacking African pumpkin they try to feed on them and as a result of feeding on them they they inflict their disease to the African pumpkin leaf thereby creating a hole and from they the African pumpkin start to loose its nutrients from the soil because pest has also suck its nutrients of its leaf and stems.
Pest are usually more harmful at night when the sun is not much and the owner of the African pumpkin farm or garden is not around to distribute them. Pest (insects) moves at night to attack crops because the temperature is cold that's where it's necessary to make use of insecticide, physical control, and even biological methods to keep insects away from our African pumpkin.
The most common way we can keep insect pest free from attacking our African pumpkin is by keeping our garden clean, spacing our planting. It's very necessary to keep our African pumpkin garden clean because the clean environment will surely not attract insects and when insects are not attracted there's no way they'll attack and that will make our African pumpkin to grow very well.
The use of chemical control know as the application of insecticide is also another major way to keep insect pest free from our African pumpkin garden. Insecticide is a chemical that when sprayed on African pumpkin garden or farm they remain they for weeks to keep pest insects free from attacking. There's a scent that usually comes from the garden after spraying insecticide which makes insects to run away from African pumpkin garden or farm.