Bud Worm(Hendecasis duplifascialis)

Symptoms

• Makes holes on the flower bud, feeds on the inner content of the bud.
• Makes circular hole on the corolla tube emerges and tunnels to move into other buds of the same shoot.
• Infested flowers turn violet in color, and fall off.
• Adjacent flower buds are webbed together in case of severe infestation.

Management

• Rake the soil during the off season to expose the pupae.
• Set up light trap during the peak emergence of adult moths.
• Collect the damaged pinkish flowers once in a week and destroy.
• Spray neem seed kernel extract (50 gram/litre of water).
• Conserve larval parasitoids (Perilampus sp, Phanerotoma sp and Mesochrous sp.)