Cultural Management

  • Grow inter crops like, green gram, black gram, groundnut, soybean
  • Sow 3-4 lines of maize (or) jowar around the sunflower crop to monitor the moth
  • Sow trap crops like marigold at 50 plants/acre
  • Use of pheromone traps (4 traps/acre) for pest intensity identification as well as to trap the male moths
  • Setting of light traps (1 light trap/5 acre) to know the range of pest incidence as well as to kill moth population
  • Release predators like coccinellids, Chrysoperla carnea @1 larva/ head
  • Release parasitoides like Trichogramma spp.@ 20,000/acre,  (Bracon spp., Campoletis spp)
  • Spray HaNPV 250 LE + Bt @ 0.5kg/ha for effective control
  • Spray HaNPV 250 LE/ha +1 kg Jaggery + 200 ml Sandovit (or) Teepal; mixing and spray in the evening hours only
  • Spraying of 5% Neem oil or 5% Neem Seed Kernal extract before egg laying