Name pests/diseases

Damage symptoms

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Management

Fruit borer,

Deudorix isocrates

Fruits with bored holes and plugged with excreta

1)Remove and destroy all the affected fruits with exit holes

2)Bagging of fruits with white paper to prevent egg laying.

3)Spray decamethrin @0.1 ml/l when  50 % of fruits have set.

4)Repeat the spray after 2 weeks with carbaryl @4g/l or fenvalerate 0.1ml/l

Fruit piercing moth, Othreis fullonia

and

O. metarna

Premature dropping of affected fruit and rotting of fruit

Loss of yield and quality of fruit

1)Destruction of larval weed hosts like Cocculus pendulus, C. hirsutus and Tinospora cardifolia

2)Smoking of orchard during evening to  repel  moths

3)Bagging of fruits or netting of trees/orchard

4)Poison bait (Banana pulp + malathion) in muslin cloth

5)Manual collection of adult moths in the night