Management

• Collection and removal of infested web leaves and buds clusters/clumps along with larvae from twigs.
• Collect and remove the dried clusters of leaf web.
• Prune the crowded and crossing branches of tree.
• Install erect light trap to monitor the pest activity in orchard.
• Sequential application of (i) neemazol/nimbecidine @ 3 ml/lit, (ii) lamda-cyhalothrin @ 1 ml/lit and (iii) ready-mix prefenophos + cypermethrin @ 1 ml/lit at 20 days interval during peak flowering (October and March onwards).
• Conservation of hymenopteran parasitoids like Eurytoma sp., Xanthopimpla sp., Macrocentrus sp. and Brachymeria nosatioi Habn. as well as predators like coccinellids, chrysopids, predatory wasps, mantids, etc.