In order to keep vigil on the population of pink boll worm, one should place 3-4 pheromone trap per acre in the field after one month of sowing. This pheromone trap attracts adult moth of pink boll worm due to presence of a specific pheromone in it and they get stuck inside the trap. However for effective tracking of pink ball worm population in the field, one needs to keep the height of this trap 30cm above the crop height and its height needs to be adjusted with the increase in crop height accordingly. On every 7 days one should count the number of pink boll worm moth in each trap and take out of the average of pink ball worm moth stuck inside 3 traps. Make sure that lure is changed at regular interval .Depending on the economic threshold levels (ETL) of the pests, plant protection measures should be adopted as follows-