Symptoms of damage

• Caterpillar found on flower buds and fruit

Identification of pest

• Adult – metallic red coloured butterfly

Management

• Collect and destroy damaged fruits
• Clean cultivation as weed plants serve as alternate hosts
• Use light trap @ 1/ ha to monitor the activity of adults
• Insecticides: malathion 50 EC 0.1% two rounds, one at flower formation and next at fruit set.