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Fruit sucking moth lay eggs on

A. Tinospera cardifolia

B. Cocculus pendulus

C. Cocculus hirsutus

D. All of these

Answer: Option D

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Fruit sucking moths lay eggs on Tinospera cardifolia, Cocculus pendulus, and Cocculus hirsutus.
The fruit-sucking moth is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Frederic Moore in 1877.
Larva has pinkish-grey dorsal surface suffused darker to a V-shaped yellow band. It has black spiracles and marbled white-ringed rufous-orange ocellate marks with three ferrous lines crossing them. The adults are a pest on various fruits. They pierce the fruit to suck the juice.

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