Symptoms of damage:

• Webbing of leaves with silken threads

Identification of pest:

• Larva: Green in colour
• Adult: small moth with yellowish white thorax and abdomen, brownish red forewing and dark brown hind wing.

Management:

• Collect and destroy affected plant parts with caterpillars
• Set up light trap @ 1/ha to attract and kill the adults
• Spray malathion 50 EC 1 ml/ lit