Cultural management
- Repeated ploughing once a week for 4 to 5 times
after first rains in summer reduce the pest population by exposing the
pest to predation by birds and other animals.
- Plant neem twigs with leaves in coconut gardens
after rain to attract and kill adult beetles
- Plough or dig the infested soil synchronizing
with pre-monsoon showers.
- Set up light trap @ 1 / ha or bonfire
- Collect and destroy the adult beetles attracted
to trees like neem, Ailanthus and Acasia on the receipt of monsoon showers
(in the evening).