Cultural management

  • Set up of light traps
  • Set up sex pheromone traps @ 12/ha
  • Cultivate sweet corn varieties with husks well covering the ear-tip.
  • Hand pick and destroy larvae before it enters inside the ear
  • Two applications of Ha NPV at 10 days interval at 1.5 X1012 POB along with crude sugar 2.5 kg + cotton seed kernel powder 250 g on the ear heads