Cultural management

  • Remove the alternate weeds hosts
  • Monitor the incidence regularly and look for crawler emergence
  • Take up the management at initial stage to get maximum control
  • Wherever necessary use neem based botanical insecticides such as neem oil 2% or NSKE 5% or fish oil rosin soap 25g/litre of water
  • Use of Encyrtid parasitoids, Acerophagus papaya @ 100 per village against Paracoccus marginatus and Aenasius bambawaeli against Phenococcus solenopsis are recommended