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 picks and destroys larvae before it enters inside the ear.
  • Two applications of Ha NPV at 10 days interval at 1.5X10   12POB along with crude sugar 2.5 kg+cotton seed kernel powder 250g on the ear heads.