Identification Symptoms
- The larvae web together the top leaves or bore
into tender shoots and capsules and feed on them
- Webbed leaves at top with young caterpillars
- Bored shoots, flower buds and pods
- In the early stage of infestation, the plant dies
without producing any branch or shoot
- In later stage of attack, infested shoots stop
growing
- At flowering, larvae feed inside the flowers and
on capsule formation, larvae bore into capsule and feed on developing
seeds
- In case of severe infestation, the yields are
drastically reduced