diamondback moth – Gramophone

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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