• Drying and splitting of fruits from tip
• Oozing of gummy exudate from fruit

Identification of pest:

• Egg: Cigar shaped, laid in groups on the grooves of tender pods
• Maggot: Cream coloured maggot
• Adult: Yellowish fly with red eyes

Management:

• Collect and destroy all the fallen and damaged fruits
• Use attractants like citronella oil, eucalyptus oil, vinegar (Acetic acid), dextrose or lactic acid
• Rake up the soil under the trees or plough the infested field to destroy puparia
• Spray insecticides like Nimbecidine 3ml/lit during 50 % fruit set and 35 days later