Symptoms of damage:

• The caterpillar cuts the edges of leaf lamina, folds it over the leaf and feeds from within leaf roll

Identification of pest:

• Egg: White spherical eggs laid singly on tender leaves
• Larva: Green in colour with longitudinal white stripe, humped last abdominal segments
• Pupae: Pupation takes place inside the leaf fold
• Adult: Brown moth with shiny brown forewings

Management:

• Collect and destroy the caterpillars
• Encourage activity of Apanteles taragamae, A. plusiae
• Spray any following insecticides

• Malathion 50 EC @500 ml/ha
• Methyl demeton 25 EC @500 ml/ha