Cultural control:

• Collect and destroy the damaged leaves, flowers and fruits along with life stages
• Use blue pan water sticky trap @ 4-5/acre
• Destroy all volunteer plants and old neglected plantations. Use healthy and pest free suckers for planting
• Hot water treatment of suckers prior to planting.
• Bunch covers (which cover the full length of the bunch) protection applied very early.
• Regular checking of fruit under the bunch covers is essential to ensure that damage.
• Conserve predators such as coccinellid and lacewings