Symptoms
- Young larvae feed on tender foliage
- Mature larvae bore circular holes
- Thrust only a part of its body into fruit and eat the inner content
Management
- Collect and destroy the infected fruits and grown up larvae
- Grow simultaneously 40 days old American tall marigold and 25 days old tomato seedling at 1:16 rows
- Setup pheromone trap with Helilure at 12/ha
- Collection and destruction of damaged fruits and grown up caterpillars.
- Release Trichogramma pretiosum @ 1 lakh nos. /ha/release at an interval of 7 days starting from flower initiation stage based on ETL of 10% damage.
- Spray Bacillus thuringiensis 2g/lit
Dept of Agriculture Development 
SFAC Kerala