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Identification
•Eggs
•Laid singly on host plant.
•Spherical in shape with a flattened base, giving dome shaped appearance,
surface is sculptured in the form of longitudinal ribs.
•Yellowish-white, glistening and change to dark brown, before hatching.
•A female lays about 500-3000 eggs.
•The egg period is 7 days
Larva
•Newly hatched caterpillar is sluggish and whitish-green in colour.
•Full-grown larva is 3.5-4.0 cm in length with pale-green body colour.
However, the colour varies according to the food intake.
•Dorsal surface bears dark broken stripes.
•Head is reddish-brown.
•Larva is highly cannibalistic and readily eats one another.
•Shows colour variation from greenish to brown.
Adult
•Female light pale brownish yellow stout moth,
•Male – Pale greenish moth V shaped speck
•Forewing – olive green to pale brown with a dark brown circular spot in the
centre
•Hindwing- is pale smoky white with a broad
•blackish outer margin
•Female moth is bigger than male and presence of tuft of hairs on the tip of the
abdomen.
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Symptom of damage
•In the early stages, plants seen defoliated.
•Boreholes seen on the damaged fruit and affected fruits
unfit for consumption.
Nature of damage
•Young larva feeds on tender leaves, buds, flowers, and
subsequently it bores into the fruit and thrust only a part of
its body into the fruit and eat the inner content, the rest
remaining outside.
•A single larva may destroy 30-40 tomato before maturity.
• Eggs are laid in groups usually on ventral side of the tender leaves and covered
with brown hair.
•The egg period is 4-5 days. Larva is stout, cylindrical, pale brownish with dark
markings.
•The body may have row of dark spots or transverse and longitudinal grey and
yellow bands. When fully grown, measures about 35-40 mm in length.
•The larval period is 14-21 days. It pupates in earthern cells in soil for 15 days.
•Life cycle is completed 30-40 days.
•ETL:
. 8 egg masses/100 meter
8. Spray NPV @ 250 LE/ha with crude sugar 2.5 kg/ha is as effective as that of
chlorpyriphos at 200 g a.i./ha at 7 days interval.
9. Apply any one of the following insecticides per ha to control early instar larvae
(1st to 3rd instar). Emamectin benzoate 5 SG @ 11g a.i /ha or Spinosad 45 SC @
75g
10. Spray any one of the following per ha to control the 4th to 6th instar larvae.
Indoxacarb 14.5 SC @ 75g ha-1 / Flubendiamide 480SC @ 48-60g a.i ha-1 /
Chlorantraniliprole 20 SC @30-40ga.i ha-1
•Use of synthetic pyrethroids and endosulfan alternatively with NSKE (4%) is effective against
fruit borer.
•Marigold was also identified as suitable intercrop/border crop for fruit borer management
apart from harboring activity of major parasitoid of the fruit borer parasitoids Microplitis sp,
Cotesia sp., Campoletis chlorideae and a polyembryonic parasitoid, Copidosoma sp.
•Grow castor as a border (or) intercrop (or) trap crop and set up pheromone trap to monitor,
attract and kill the male moths @ 12 nos./ha for Spodoptera litura.
•For managing Spodoptera litura spray Emamectin benzoate 5 SG @ 11g a.i /ha or Spinosad
45 SC @ 75g to control early instar larvae (1st to 3rd instar).
•To control the 4th to 6th instar larvae of Spodoptera litura Indoxacarb 14.5 SC @ 75g ha-1 /
Flubendiamide 480SC @ 48-60g a.i ha-1 / Chlorantraniliprole 20 SC @30-40ga.i ha-1
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