Symptoms of damage:

• Larva feeds on the leaflets reducing them into papery structures

Identification of pest:

• Egg: creamy white oval eggs and laid in clusters on leaves
• Larva: Devoid of prothoracic shield
• Adult: Similar to N. moringae but bigger in size

Management:

• Plough around trees to expose and kill pupae
• Collect and destroy damaged buds along with caterpillar
• Set up light trap @ 1/ha
• Spray insecticides like carbaryl 50 WP@ 1gm/lit or malathion 50 EC 2 ml/lit of water