Symptoms of damage: Withering of terminal shoots/dead hearts Bore holes on shoots and fruits plugged with excreta Shedding of flower buds Withering and drying of leaves
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Withering of terminal shoots/dead hearts
Bore holes on shoots and fruits plugged with excreta
Shedding of flower buds
Withering and drying of leaves
Identification of pest:
Identification of pest: Eggs: Creamy white eggs Larva: Pink in colour Pupa: Greyish boat shaped cocoon Adult: Medium sized moth. Forewings has black and brown patches and dots on white colour, hind wings are opaescent with black dots
Eggs: Creamy white eggs
Larva: Pink in colour
Pupa: Greyish boat shaped cocoon
Adult: Medium sized moth. Forewings has black and brown patches and dots on white colour, hind wings are opaescent with black dots
Remove the affected terminal shoot showing boreholes.
Remove the affected fruits and destroy.
Avoid continuous cropping of brinjal crop
Grow the varieties with long and narrow fruits in endemic areas
Install pheromone trap@12/ha
Encourage the activity of larval parasitoids: Pristomerus testaceus, Cremastus flavoorbitalis
Avoid use of synthetic pyrethroids
Avoid using insecticides at the time of fruit maturation and harvest
Neem seed kernel extract (NSKE) 5 % or
Spray Neem Seed Kernel Extract 5 % or any one of the following chemicals starting from one month after planting at 15 days interval
