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Fruit sucking moth: Piercing marks on fruits


Pest: Eudocima spp.


Symptoms

While sucking fruit juice moth creates holes which facilitates the entry of rot causing microorganisms.


Control

  • Destroy host plants of larvae viz., Tinospora cordifolia, T. sinensis etc., present in and around the field.

  • Create smoke in the fields by burning the weeds and crop waste during evening hours in the orchard at different spots. Smoke masks the odor of the mature fruit, so that, the moths fail to detect fruits and do not enter the orchard.

  • Egg parasitoids, Telenomus sp., Ooencyrtus sp. and Trichogramma sp. are among the most successful biological control agents of FSM.

  • Keep poison baits (95% molasses/jaggery + 5% malathion), in big flat earthen pots and install compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) bulb over them. Moths are attracted to light and bait which kills them through stomach action.

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