Cultural management
- Collection and destruction of fallen plant parts
- Hand picking and destruction of grown up
caterpillars
- Natural enemies viz.,
egg parasitoid: Trichogramma sps;
larval parasitoids: Brachymeria
bengalinsis pulchellae; Elasmus
indicus; Apanteles spp.; Bracon lefroyi;Microbracon recinicola; and Pupal parasitoids: Trichospilus pupivora and Xanthopimpla
spp.