Cultural management

  • Grow castor as border or inter crop in fields to serve as indicator or trap crop
  • Monitor adult moth emergence by setting up light and pheromone traps @ 10/ ha
  • Collect egg masses and destroy
  • Hand picking and destruction of larvae
  • Release of egg parasitoid Telenomus remus @ 1,25,000/ha for 4 times at 7-10 days interval