Symptoms of damage

• Adult pierce the fruit, sucks the juice causing rottening and dropping

Identification of pest

• Larva: orange blue and yellow spots on velvety dark speckled on the body
• Adult: stout moth and orange coloured wing
• Otheris materna : three black spots on the fore wing

Management

• Destroy the weed host Tinospora cardifolia and coccules pendules
• Use light trap or food lure to attract moths
• Apply smoke to prevent adult moth
• Bag the fruit with polythene bag (500 gauge)
• Trap crop – growing tomato crop in orchards to attract the adult moth
• Poison bait

• dilute suspension of fermented molasses and malathion 0.05% (50 EC at 1ml/lit)