Fruit sucking moth

Pest: Eudocima spp.

Symptoms

The moth pierces through the rind and sucks the juice with their long proboscis.

Control

• Moth attack occurs mostly along the outer rows of the orchard, so, fruit crops should be planted in square blocks and not in a few long rows.

• Collection and destruction of moths using torch in the night is the usual practice adopted by growers.

• Cover the fruits with butter paper, newspaper or polymer bags as per the feasibility of covering materials.

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