Fruit borer: Excreta of larva on fruit
Pest: Deudorix isocrates / Anar butterfly
Symptoms
Fruit showing blakish brown excreta of larva coming out from live holes. The striking symptom is the odious smell and excreta of caterpillars coming out of theentry holes ultimately leading to fruit rot.
Control
Remove and destroy the affected fruits.
Clip off calyx cup immediately after pollination followed by two applications of neem oil @ 3 %.
Before maturity, bag the fruits with butter paper.
At flowering stage, spray NSKE 5% or neem formulations 2 ml/1.
Spray deltamethrin 2.8 EC (1.5 ml/litre of water) at fortnightly interval from the stage of flowering to fruit development.
Spray malathion 50 EC 0.1% or methomyl 40 SP @ 1.0 ml/l or azadirachtin 1500 ppm @ 3.0 ml/l at 15 days intervals commencing from initiation of flowering up to the harvesting subjected to the presence of fruit borer.