Name pests

Damage symptoms

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Management

Pomegranate

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