Symptoms of damage:

• Zig-zag galleries and silken webbed masses comprising of chewed material and excreta of larva

Identification of pest:

• Larva: long, stout and dirty brown in colour
• Adult: Pale brown moth. Forewings has brown spots and streaks, Hind wings are white in colour

Management:

• Clean all webbed material, plug the holes with cotton wool soaked in fumigants like chloroform, formalin or petrol and seal it with mud