• Buds, flowers and young pods with boreholes
• Presence of slug like caterpillar.
• Honey dew secretion with black ant movements

Identification of the pest

• Larva – It is flat and slightly rounded; Pale green with a rough skin.
• Adult - moth is greyish blue with prominent black spots in the hind wings and a long tail; Ventral side of wings with numerous stripes and brown spots

Management

• Avoid dense and close planting
• Avoid early or late sowing
• Regular soil digging cause death of larvae and pupae
• Egg parasitoid, Trichogramma spp.,
• Larval parasitoids, Hyperencyrtus lucoenephila and Litrodromus crassipes