Cultural Management

  • Debark vines, branches and apply methyl parathion paste
  • Collect damaged bark, leaves, twigs and stems
  • Use sticky traps on fruit bearing shoots at a length of 5 cm to prevent crawlers from reaching young shoots.
  • Release predator, Cryptolaemus montrouzieri @ 10 beetles/vine
  • Field release of parasitoids - Anagyrus dactylopii, Gyanusoidea mirzai
  • Applying sticky bands like grease or sticky tapes around stem, stalks of branches.