Management

• Keep the sapota orchard clean to minimize the spread of seed borer.
• Collection and removal of the off-season stray mature fruits after end of fruit harvest lower the further pest infestation in orchard.
• Keep the sapota orchard clean to minimize the spread of seed borer.
• Sequential four application of deltamethrin 2.8 EC @ 1 ml/lit and Bt powder (Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki - 1 x 1011 CFU/gm) @ 1 g/lit water at 15 days interval at marble stage of fruit (October onwards) to minimize fruit damage of seed borer in sapota OR
• Three alternate sprays of profenophos 50 EC @ 1.5 ml or novaluron 10EC @ 0.5 ml/lit or indoxacarb 14.5 SC @ 0.5 ml/lit at 15 days interval suggested just after withdrawal of monsoon i.e. October onwards at marble fruit stage.
• Post harvest treatment like fumigating the container/ conveyance means / ripening places during arrival period definitely cut down the risk.
• Conservation and augmentation of parasitoids and predators for the management of eggs and early instar larvae before enter into fruit.