The limiting pest for cedar and mahogany cultivation in Latin America and the Caribbean is undoubtedly the moth Hypsipyla grandella. "shoot borer” Several control methods were applied, but the use of physical and ethological control using barriers and intelligent solar lights were not evaluated despite their good potential in the ethological control of agricultural pests. The objective of the project was to determine if ethological control (applying white and yellow artificial lights) decrease the incidence and infestation of Hypsipyla grandella in clonal gardens and plantations of Cedrela odorata "cedro". The study was developed in the Fundo Almendra of the Faculty of Forestry Sciences of the UNAP, which has a plantation of "cedar" with a high incidence of H. grandella, all the larvae of H. grandella were removed and fumigated throughout the plantation, then in two plots were installe...