Symptoms of damage

• Triangular pale or yellow patches close to perianth
• Necrotic tissues
• Brown colour patches, longitudinal fissures and splits on the husk
• Oozing of the gummy exudation from the affected surface
• Reduced size and copra content
• Malformed nuts with cracks and hardened husk

Identification of the pest

• Nymph and Adult: Pale in colour with elongate body and worm like appearance

Management

• Apply urea 1.3 kg, super phosphate 2.0 and muriate of potash 3.5 kg/palm/year
• Neem cake @5 kg and organic manure 50 kg/palm/year
• Borax 50 g + gypsum 1.0 kg + Manganese sulphate 0.5 kg/palm/year
• Grow intercrop (sun hemp, four crops/year) and shelter belt with casuarina all round the coconut garden to check further entry
• Triazophos 40 EC 5 ml/lit or  carbosulfan 25 EC 2 ml/lit in alternation with neem azal 1% 5ml/lit as spot application

• Root feeding

• Root feeding with TNAU - Agro Biocide 30 ml/tree
• TNAU - Agro biocide - 30 ml/tree - (60 days after Carbosulfan root feeding).              
• Triazophos 40 EC @15 ml or carbosulfan 25EC @ 15 ml / 15 ml of water
• After root feeding, next harvest should be done 45 days later