尽管已有有效农药,但用于防治椰子(尤其是高种椰子)食叶害虫却相当困难而且不经济。对高种椰子使用常规法施药如喷洒和喷粉几乎行不通。此外,像椰堆砂蛀一类的虫害,由于它在活动食叶阶段(幼虫)隐藏在折叠叶片背面的密网下面,因此农药不易喷到它们。目前,在班加罗尔农科大学已在考虑改用更有效的和 Despite the availability of effective pesticides, it is rather difficult and uneconomical to control leaf-cutting pests of coconuts, especially tall coconuts. Conventional methods of applying pesticides, such as spraying and dusting, to high-grade coconut hardly do. In addition, insect pests such as cedar sandwiches are less likely to spray pesticides because they hide beneath the dense web at the back of folded leaves during the active leafing stage (larvae). At the moment, agricultural universities in Bangalore are already considering switching to more efficient ones