DBM – Gramophone

Contro of Diamondback Moth (DBM) in Cabbage:-

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 8-10mm 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 diamond back 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 skletonised.

Control

For the prevention of diamond back moth, bold mustard should be sown in 2 lines after every 25 lines of cabbage/Cauliflower.
Spray the crop with Profenofos 50% EC (3 ml/lit) or Spinosad 25% SC (0.5 Ml/litre ) or Indoxacarb (1.5 Ml/Litre) of water at fortnight intervals starting from 25 days after transplanting to control the pest.

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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 8-10mm 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 diamond back 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 skletonised.

Control

For the prevention of diamond back moth, bold mustard should be sown in 2 lines after every 25 lines of cabbage/Cauliflower.
Spray the crop with Profenofos 50% EC (3 ml/lit) or Spinosad 25% SC (0.5 Ml/litre ) or Indoxacarb (1.5 Ml/Litre) of water at fortnight intervals starting from 25 days after transplanting to control the pest.

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