• Young larvae feed by scrapping the leaves from ventral surface
• Later on feed voraciously at night on the foliage.

Identification of pest

• Larva:Pale greenish or brown with dark marking
• Adult:Yellow and purplish spots in the sub marginal areas. Fore wings have wavy white markings, hind wings are whitish with brown patch along the margin.

Management

• Hand pick and destroy the caterpillar
• Collect and destroy the damaged plant parts
• Summer ploughing to expose to the pupae
• Use light trap
• Spray azinphosethyl or chlorphyriphos
• In severe infestation applyBacillus thuringenesis
• Foliar spray with avanthe 1 ml in 100 ml of water
• Field release of egg parasitoid such as Telenomus spodopterae and Telenomus remus
• Field release of entomopathogenic fungus Nomuraea rileyi