Fruit sucking moth: Otheris materna, O. ancilla, O. fullonica
Symptoms of damage
- Adult pierce the fruit, sucks the juice causing rottening and dropping
Identification of pest
- Larva: orange blue and yellow spots on velvety dark speckled on the body
- Adult: stout moth and orange coloured wing
- Otheris materna: three black spots on the fore wing
Management
- Destroy the weed host Tinospora cardifolia and coccules pendules
- Use light trap or food lure to attract moths
- Apply smoke to prevent adult moth
- Bag the fruit with polythene bag (500 gauge)
- Trap crop – growing tomato crop in orchards to attract the adult moth
- Poison bait
- dilute suspension of fermented molasses and malathion 0.05% (50 EC at 1ml/lit)
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