Symptoms of damage:

• Larva bores into the stem of snake gourd and produces galls

• Larva: White in colour
• Pupa: Pupation takes place in earthen cocoon in the soil
• Adult: Dark brown moth with transparent wings

• Collect and destroy the damaged plant parts with larvae
• Encourage activity of parasitoid: Apanteles spp.
• Spray any following insecticides malathion 50 EC @ 500 ml methyl demeton 25 EC @ 500 ml/ ha

• malathion 50 EC @ 500 ml
• methyl demeton 25 EC @ 500 ml/ ha