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