• Caterpillar bore into the fruits and make tunnel inside
• Feed on the internal content of the fruits
• Affected fruits fall to ground

• Black coloured caterpillar

• Collect and destroy the damaged fruits
• Spray endosulfan 0.07% or malathion 0.1% two times once at flower formation and second at fruit set

Fruit fly, Bactrocera zonata

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

• Larva - Yellowish apodous maggots.
• Adult - Light brown with transparent wing

• 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 470 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 100EC 1ml/l, malathion 50EC 2 ml/l, dimethoate 30 EC 1 ml/l, carbaryl 50 WP 4 g/l.

• fenthion 100EC 1ml/l,
• malathion 50EC 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 malathion 50 EC at 0.1% or fenthion 100 EC at 1ml/lit
• Field release of natural enemies Opius compensates and Spalangia philippines

Tailed mealy bug , Ferrisa virgata

• Adults and crawlers – setting on leaves, young shoots and fruit (between segments)
• Yellowing of leaves
• Reduction of fruit size and do not fetch premium price in the market

• Nymph: Yellowish to pale white.
• Adult : Females apterous, long, slender covered with white waxy secretions

• Collect and destroy the mealy bug infested leaves, shoots and fruits
• Spray dichlorvos 0.05%, two times at new flush and shoot formation and second at fruit set.
• Release Cryptolaemous montrouzieri beetles @ 10/tree.