Cultural Management

  • Remove weeds and stubbles after harvesting
  • Avoid green manure and apply FYM to prevent cutworm egg laying
  • Use Steinernema carpocapsae (entomopathogenic nematode)or Beauveria bassiana (fungi) at emergence of cutworm.
  • Before one week of sowing, apply Bacillus thuringenesis + Rice husk in main field to control cutworm
  • Release Trichogramma parasitoid weekly once for 3 weeks continuously to control cutworm eggs
  • In nature, larvae are infected by entomopathogenic fungus, Nomuraea rileyi and parasitised by Bracon sp.