Identification
- Eggs are yellowish-white with greenish tings.
- The caterpillars are 7-12 mm in length, pale yellowish-green in colour with fine erect back hair scattered all over the body.
- Adults are 8-10 mm long greyish-brown in colour having pale whitish narrow wing inner yellow margins.
- The adult female lays eggs on the leaves either singly or in groups.
- White markings along the back of the fore wings which when folded from a diamond-shaped pattern in adult diamondback moth.
Damage
- Small slender green caterpillars on emergence feed on the leafs epidemics and later make holes in the leaves.
- Severely affected leaves are completely skeletonized.
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