Symptoms of damage:

• The larva webs the leaves and bore into the stem, stalks or leaf veins

Identification of pest:

• Egg:  Yellow shiny eggs laid on the leaves
• Larva: Full grown larva are greyish-yellow with seven purplish brown longitudinal stripes
• Adult: Pale greyish brown moth with wavy grey markings

Management:

• Collect and destroy mechanically caterpillars in the early stages of attack
• Bacillus thuringiensis @ 2g/lit at primordial stage
• Cartap hydrochloride @ 500g/ha or malathion 50 EC @500ml/ha