- Avoid showing alternate host plants like cucumber, ridge gourd, sponge gourd, round gourd etc. near the bottle gourd field.
- Destroy the remains of the old crop.
- In the early stage of the crop, if the insect appears, hold it by hand and destroy it.
- Spray the crop with Cypermethrin 25% EC 150 ml/acre +Dimethoat 30% EC 300 ml /acre or Carbaryl 50% WP 400 gm/acre at fortnight intervals starting from 25 days after sowing to control the pest.
- Spraying with Dichlorvos (DDVP) 76% EC @ 250-350 ml/acre gives satisfactory control of the pest.
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