• Maggot bore into semi-ripen fruits with decayed spots and dropping of fruits.
• Oozing of fluid
• Brownish rotten patches on fruits.

Identification of pest

• Larva - Yellowish apodous maggots.
• Adult - Light brown with transparent wing

Management

• Collect fallen infested fruits and dispose them by dumping in a pit and covering with soil.
• Provide summer ploughing to expose the pupa
• Monitor the activity of flies with methyl eugenol sex lure traps.
• Use bait spray combing any one of the insecticides and molasses or jaggery 10 g/l
  • malathion 50EC 2 ml/l,
  • dimethoate 30 EC 1 ml/l,
  • carbaryl 50 WP 4 g/l. two rounds at 2 weeks interval before ripening of fruits.
• Prepare bait with methyl eugenol 1% solution mixed with malathion 0.1%.
• Take 10 ml of this mixture per trap and keep them in 25 different places in one hectare
• Heavy infestation - application of dust and sprays of pyrethrum
• Spray malathion 50 EC 2ml/lit.
• Field release of natural enemies Opius compensates and Spalangia philippines