Plume moth ( Exelastis atomosa)

Damaging stage: larva

Damaging symptoms:

• Pin head size holes on pods
• Small spiny caterpillars and pupae are seen on the pods

Identification of the pest

• Egg: white, singly
• Larva :    greenish brown, fringed with radiating hairs and spines
• Pupa : small hair are +nt , +nt in leaf debris , greenish-brown like
• Adult – is a delicate, brown-colored small moth with plumed wings.

Management

• Mechanical collection of grown-up larva and blister beetle
• NPV
• Apply any one of the following insecticides:
• Azadirachtin 03 % WSP 2500-5000 g/ha
• Bacillus thuringiensis var kurstaki 5%WP1000-1250 g/ha
• Dimethoate 30% EC 1237 ml/ha
• Emamectin benzoate 5% SG 220 g/ha
• Spinosad 45%SC 125-162 ml/ha
• NSKE 5% twice followed by triazophos 05%
• Neem oil 2%