“…Apart from pigeonpea, various field crops are also affected by H. armigera , with losses ranging from 26‐80%. Cereals like rice (37%), maize (31%), corn, pearl millet and chickpea (26%), oil crops like cotton (37–65%) (Aheer, Ali, & Akram, 2009; Honnakerappa & Udikeri, 2018), vegetables like tomato (37–80%) (Choudhary, Kumar, Jat, Ram, & Deshwal, 2017), potato (40%), okra, soybeans field beans, peas (26–29%), (Abhilash & Shekharappa, 2017) and fruits like, citrus are profoundly affected by this pest. Various pest control measures such as chemical insecticides (Babariya, Kabaria, Patel, & Joshi, 2010; Pathange & Chiranjeevi, 2017), new generation microbial agents ( Trichoderma viride and Bacillus megatherium ) and bio‐pesticides (Gajendran, Chandrasekaran, & Jebaraj, 2006; Sharma et al, 2015) have not been successful in controlling this pest.…”