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- Make a pit of 5 X 5 feet and 4 inches deep in a sugarcane field and put polythene in it.
- Fill this pot with water and add half a liter of kerosene or 10-15 ml of malathion.
- Hang a light blob just above the pit. Pyrillas and other insects will be attracted by light traps and will fall into the pit and die.
- Keep the light on (Blub) from 8 to 10 pm, after which the activity of these pests decreases.
- It can also be controlled by spraying 80 g imidacloprid 17.8 SL or 80 ml thiamethoxam mixed with 200 liters of water at the rate of 25 WG per acre.
- The parasites of the perilla insect lay 4-5 lakh eggs of Epirnicia melonoleuca on the infested crop. In the sufficient presence of this parasitic insect, the perilla insect is self-contained.
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