Symptoms of damage

• Maggot bore into the semi ripened fruits
• Feed on the inside fruits
• Affected fruits gets shriveled, malformed, rot and fall off

Identification of pest:

• Larva: Yellowish apodous maggots
• Adult: Light brown with transparent wing

Management:

• Collect fallen infested fruits and dispose them by dumping in a pit and covering with soil
• Provide summer ploughing to expose the pupa
• Immersion of fruits in hot water (45 to 47 °C) for 60 minutes to kill eggs and maggots
• Monitor the activity of flies with methyl eugenol sex lure traps.
• Use bait spray combing any one of the insecticides and molasses or jaggery 10 g/l,
• Fenthion 100 EC 1ml/l
• Malathion 50 EC 2 ml/l
• Dimethoate 30 EC 1 ml/l
• Carbaryl 50 WP 4 g/l
• two rounds at 2 weeks interval before ripening of fruits
• Prepare bait with methyl eugenol 1% solution mixed with malathion 0.1%.
• Take 10 ml of this mixture per trap and keep them in 25 different places in one hectare
• Spray 0.1% malathion 50 EC at 1ml/lit
• Field release of natural enemies Opius compensates and Spalangia philippines