Symptoms of damage:

• Young larvae feed on tender foliage
• Mature larvae bore circular holes
• Thrust only a part of its body into fruit and eat the inner content

Identification of pest:

• Eggs: Eggs are sculptured and creamy white in colour, laid singly
• Larva: Shows colour variation from greenish to brown. It has dark brown grey lines on the body with lateral white lines and also has dark band 
• Pupa: Brown in colour, occurs in soil, leaf, pod and crop debris 
• Adult: Female light pale brownish yellow stout moth, Male – Pale greenish moth V shaped speck.
  • Forewing: olive green to pale brown with a dark brown circular spot in the centre
  • Hindwing:  is pale smoky white with a broad blackish outer margin

Management:

• Collect and destroy the infected fruits and grown up larvae
• Grow simultaneously 40 days old American tall marigold and 25 days old tomato seedling at 1:16 rows
• Setup pheromone trap with Helilure at 12/ha
• Collection and destroy of damaged fruits and grown up caterpillars.
• Release Trichogramma pretiosum @ 1 lakh/ha at an interval of 7 days starting from flower initiation stage.
• Spray HaNPV 1.5 x 1012 POBs/ha.
• For Helicoverpa armigera: HaNPV 1.5 x 10¹² POBs/ha i.e. NPV of H. armigera  0.43%  AS @ 3.0 ml/lit or 2 % AS @ 1.0 ml per lit
• For Spodoptera litura: Sl NPV 1.5 x 10¹² POBs/ha
• Provide poison bait with carbaryl 50 WP 1.25 kg, rice bran 12.5 kg, jaggery 1.25 kg and water 7.5 lit/ha
• Spray Bacillus thuringiensis 2g/lit or any one of the following insecticide 
• Spray Azadirachtin 1.0 % EC (10000 ppm) 2.0 ml/ lit. or apply Bacillus thuringiensis 2g/lit. during evening hours.