FRUIT BORER IN TOMATO

Helicoverpa is a polypagous  pest it can be wide spread in all regions it can be seen in crops like cotton, sunflower, TOMATO, safflower, chilli, and groundnut.

The moth is stout and it is in brownish

• FRUIT BORER IN TOMATO
• How can be identified
• Helicoverpa bore the fruit in round holes
• Spodoptera bore the fruit in irregular holes

THE LARVE BORE INTO FRUIT AND DECLINE THE MARKET VALUE AND IT IS UNFIT FOR CONSUMPTION

COMPLETE CONTROL OF PEST BY FALLOWING THIS METHODS

• we can remove the infected plant debris
• destruction of larva by hand picking
• En couraging new crop rotation
• we can must grow the inter crops  such as cowpea, onion, maize, coriander, urdbean in 1:2 ratio for conservation of natural enemy population

GROWING OF TRAP CROPS AROUND THE TOMATO FIELD

Growing sorghum or maize in 4 rows all around tomato crop as guard crop.

Use of ovipositional trap crops such as marigold @ 100 plants / acre and collection of larvae from flowers

• Erecting of bird perches for encouraging predatory birds such as king crow, mynah, drongo etc

WE CAN ALSO TRAP THE MOTHER INSECT BY USING TRAPS

• Installing pheromone traps @ 4 / ac (ETL 10 moths/trap/day)

HELIC-O-LURE

BIOLOGICAL METHODS TO CONTROL OVER PEST

Releasing of egg parasitoid Tricogramma chilonis at weekly interval @ 1.5 lakhs/ ha or release of 2nd instar larvae of Chrysoperla carnea @ one lakh/ha

Larval parasitoid such as:

•  Campoletis chloridae (Ichneumonidae);
•  Eriborus angenteopilorus;
•  Diadegma fenestalis;
• Bracon brevicornis;
•  Peribaca orbata etc

BY USING NUCLEAR POLY HEDRO VIRUS

Application of HaNPV @ 200 LE/ac in combination with jaggery 1 kg, sandovit 100 ml or Robin Blue 50 g thrice at 10-15 days interval on observing the eggs or first instar larvae in the evening hours.

FRUIT BORER IN TOMATO Larval parasitoid such as:

• Campoletis chloridae (Ichneumonidae);
• Eriborus angenteopilorus;
• Diadegma fenestalis;
• Bracon brevicornis;
• Peribaca orbata etc

When the pest can be cross the economic threshold limit we fallows the chemical methods to control

In severe incidence, sprays with indoxacarb 1 ml/l or spinosad 0.3 ml/l or after collecting late instars

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