How to avoid fruit borer in Bottle Gourd

How to avoid fruit borer in Bottle Gourd
  • Do not take the same crop continuously in the same field, follow crop rotation.
  • Adult flies lay eggs in flowers. Eggs go into maggots, which feed inside the fruit and cause rotting.
  • For effective prevention of the pest, remove fruits before spraying the insecticide.
  • Size of the infected fruits deteriorated and cut caused foul smell.
  • To control the number of pests, apply pheromone trap @ 4 nets per acre.
  • For pest prevention, spray emamectin benzoate at the rate of 5% SG @ 100 g + Bivaria bassiana 250 g per acre. or
  • Spray Chlorpyrifos with 200 liters of water at the rate of 20% EC 300 ml per acre. or
  • Spray Bifenthrin @ 10% EC @ 400 ml / acre.
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