Symptoms of damage

• Premature dropping of fruit.

Identification of pest

• Nymph - Yellowish to pale white.
• Adult - long, slender covered with white waxy secretions

Management

• Debark vines and branches and apply methyl parathion paste
• Collect damaged bark, leaves, twigs and stems
• Use sticky traps  on fruit – bearing shoots at a length of 5 cm
• Use dichlorvos 76 WSC 0.15% in combination with fish oil rosin soap (25g/lit)
• Insecticides
  • Dimethoate 30 EC plus kerosene oil at 150 ml plus 250 ml in 100 ml of water
  • Apply quinalphos dust in the soil at 25 kg/ ha to kill ants
  • Release exotic predator, Cryptolaemus montrouzieri @ 10 beetles/vine
  • Field release of parasitoids - Anagrus dactylopii, Gyanusoidea mirzai