Identification symptoms

  • Caterpillar bores into young fruits but they may also bore buds and tender shoots.
  • Feeds on internal contents (pulp and seeds)
  • Infected fruits dry up and fall off without ripening
  • The affected fruits are generally deformed at the point of entry of larvae.
  • Larval feaces may be seen exuding out of the borer hole.
  •  Such fruits weaken, rot and drop down