Cultural Management
- Deep ploughing so that
the eggs of painted bugs are destroyed
- Early sowing is needed
to avoid pest attack
- Irrigate the crop
during four weeks after sowing to reduce pest attack
- Quick threshing of the
harvested crop should be done
- Burn the remains of
mustard crop so that the stages of insect do not reach the next year crop
- The bugs usually
congregate on the leaves and stem, which can be jerked to dislodge them
and killed in kerosinised water
- Conserve bio-control
agents like Alophara spp.