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- This insect hides in piles of soil, straw, weeds during the day, and eats crops overnight. Its number can be seen significantly in the affected farm/crop. This pest tends to eat very fast and can affect the entire field crop by eating in a very short time. Hence management/control of this pest is necessary.
- The armyworm attacks the crop in groups together and cuts off the leaves or other green parts of the crop at night and in the day it hides under a crack or lump in the field or under a dense crop shade. lives.
- In areas where the number of fall armyworm pests is high, spraying of any of the following insecticides should be done immediately.
- Pre-sowing soil treatment: In the maize crop, fall armyworm is managed by soil treatment, for this, Bavaria bassiana should be mixed with 50 kg FYM at the rate of 250 gram/acre and broadcast in an empty field.
- Spraying: Lemdashelothrin 4.6% + chlorantraniliprole 9.3% ZC 100 ml / acre, or chlorantraniliprole 18.5% SC @ 60 ml / acre, or emamectin benzoate 5% SG @ 100 gram / acre + Bavaria bassiana @ 250 gram/acre
- In areas where its number is less, in those areas, keep the farmer on the ridge of their fields and place a small pile of straw in the middle of the field. In the sun, the armyworm (soldier moth) hides in these straw piles in search of shade. In the evening these straws should be collected and burnt.
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