Cultural management

  • Plough the soil to expose and kill the pupae
  • Grow castor along border and irrigation channel as trap crop
  • Set up light trap @1/ha and pheromone traps @15/ ha to attract male moths
  • Collect and destroy egg masses in castor and tomato
  • Hand pick grown up larvae and kill them
  • Spray Sl NPV @ 1.5 X 10 12 POBs / ha + 2.5 Kg crude sugar + 0.1 % teepol