Cultural management
- Summer ploughing to
destroy the pupa
- Early sowing should be
done
- Maintain clean
cultivation
- Apply irrigation in
seedling stage is very crucial for sawfly management because most of the
larvae die due to drowning effect. Severe cold reduces pest load.
- Collection and destruction of grubs of saw fly in morning and evening
- Conserve Perilissus cingulator (parasitoids of the grubs), and the bacterium Serratia marcescens which infect the larvae of sawfly
- Use of bitter gourd
seed oil emulsion as on anti- feedant