Symptoms of damage:

• Damage leaves and heads of cabbage and cauliflower
• Damage leaves of radish and beet root

Identification of pest:

• Egg: Masses appear golden brown
• Larva: Young caterpillars are light green with black head or black spots.  Well grown caterpillars are grey or dark brown
• Adult: Adult moths are brownish colour. Forewings are brown colour with wavy white marking, Hindwings are white colour with brown patchs along the margin

Management:

• Plough the soil to expose and kill the pupae
• Grow castor along border and irrigation channel as trap crop
• Flood the field to drive out the hibernating larvae
• Set up light trap @1/ha
• Pheromone traps (Pherodin SL) @ 15/ha to attract male moths
• Hand pick grown up larvae and kill them
• Spray Sl NPV @ 1.5 X 1012 POBs/ ha + 2.5 Kg crude sugar + 0.1 % teepol
• Poison bait: Rice bran 5 Kg + Molasses or Brown sugar 500g + Carbaryl 50 WP 500g+ 3lit of water/ha
• Spray chlorpyriphos 20 EC 2lit/ha or dichlorovos 76 WSC 1 lit/ha