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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