Insect Pests of Fruit, Plantation, Medicinal & Aromatic Crops (2+1)

4. Fruit piercing moth

4. Fruit piercing moth -Othreis fullonia and O.maternal (Noctuidae; Lepidoptera)

Damage

• Adult moth sucks sap from fruits by making puncture and there is secondary infection and affected fruits rotting and falls down.
Management

• Remove and destroy the weed plants like Tinospora and Cocculus.
• Remove and destroy damaged fruits.
• Smoke orchards during evening hours to get rid off adults.
• Use light traps at 1 / ha.
• Use poison bait (malathion 0.05% plus fermented molasses or crude sugar and fruit juice to attract and kill adults).