Symptoms of damage

• Wilting of the plant due to adult boring at the base of the stem.

Identification of pest

• Grub - Sluggish, white, ‘C’ shaped.
• Adult - Stout brownish black with a horn projecting from the head.

Management

• Remove and burn all dead pine apple trees
• Collect and destroy the various biostages in the manure pits
• Iron hooking – kill adults from base of the stem
• Set up light trap 1/ha
• Soak castor cake 1 kg in 5 lit of water in small mud pots keep them in pine apple garden
• Incorporate Metarhizium anisopillae, Baculovirus of oryctes was controlled the beetle
• Use Rhinolure vane trap for attract adults
• Conserve predators like reduviid bug Platymeris laevicollis
• Spray carbaryl @ 0.1% at once in three months
• Spray malathion @ 5%