Identification of the pest

• Eggs – are spherical in shape and creamy white in colour, laid singly 
• Pupa – brown in colour, occurs in soil, leaf, pod and crop debris
• Adult - light pale brownish yellow stout moth. 
• Forewing grey to pale brown with V shaped speck.
• Hind wings are pale smoky white with a broad blackish outer margin.

Symptoms of damage

• Skeletinization of leaves – feeding chlorophyll only leaving veins by young larvae Defoliation
• Feeds flower and green pods
• In green pods – make circular holes and feed the grains and make empty.

Management

• ETL: 2 early instar larvae/plant 5-8 eggs/plant
• Pheromone traps for Helicoverpa armigera 12/ha
• Bird perches 50/ha
• Hand picking of grown up larvae and blister beetles
• Ha NPV 1.5 x1012 POB/ha with teepol (1 ml/lit.)
  
• Apply any one of the following (Spray fluid 625 ml/ha)
• Dichlorvos 76 WSC 625 ml/ha
• Neem seed kernel extract 5% (31.0 kg/ha) twice followed by
• Triazophos 40 EC 780 ml/ha
• Neem oil 12.5 lit./ha
• Phosalone 35 EC 1.25 lit./ha

(Note : Insecticide / Ha NPV spray should be made when the larvae were upto third instar)