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    Insect Pests of Rice

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    The document summarizes six major insect pests that attack rice crops: 1) Paddy stem borer caterpillars bore into rice shoots and tillers, causing "dead heart" and "white ear". 2) Gall midge maggots feed at the base of shoots, forming "onion leaf" galls that prevent panicle formation. 3) Leaf folder or leaf roller caterpillars fold leaves longitudinally and feed inside, scraping tissues until leaves become white and dry. 4) Brown plant hopper nymphs and adults congregate at plant bases and vector diseases, causing "hopper burn" and plant drying. 5) Green leafhoppers yellow leaves and vector diseases like tungro,

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    The document summarizes six major insect pests that attack rice crops: 1) Paddy stem borer caterpillars bore into rice shoots and tillers, causing "dead heart" and "white ear". 2) Gall midge maggots feed at the base of shoots, forming "onion leaf" galls that prevent panicle formation. 3) Leaf folder or leaf roller caterpillars fold leaves longitudinally and feed inside, scraping tissues until leaves become white and dry. 4) Brown plant hopper nymphs and adults congregate at plant bases and vector diseases, causing "hopper burn" and plant drying. 5) Green leafhoppers yellow leaves and vector diseases like tungro,

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    The document summarizes six major insect pests that attack rice crops: 1) Paddy stem borer caterpillars bore into rice shoots and tillers, causing "dead heart" and "white ear". 2) Gall midge maggots feed at the base of shoots, forming "onion leaf" galls that prevent panicle formation. 3) Leaf folder or leaf roller caterpillars fold leaves longitudinally and feed inside, scraping tissues until leaves become white and dry. 4) Brown plant hopper nymphs and adults congregate at plant bases and vector diseases, causing "hopper burn" and plant drying. 5) Green leafhoppers yellow leaves and vector diseases like tungro,

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    Insect Pests of Rice

    Uploaded by

    Biresh Koley
    The document summarizes six major insect pests that attack rice crops: 1) Paddy stem borer caterpillars bore into rice shoots and tillers, causing "dead heart" and "white ear". 2) Gall midge maggots feed at the base of shoots, forming "onion leaf" galls that prevent panicle formation. 3) Leaf folder or leaf roller caterpillars fold leaves longitudinally and feed inside, scraping tissues until leaves become white and dry. 4) Brown plant hopper nymphs and adults congregate at plant bases and vector diseases, causing "hopper burn" and plant drying. 5) Green leafhoppers yellow leaves and vector diseases like tungro,

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    Insect pests of Rice

    Important insects attacking rice

    1. Paddy stem borer: Scirpophaga incertulas

    Family: Crambidae; Order: Lepidoptera

    Symptoms:

     Caterpillar bore into central shoot of paddy seedling and tiller, causes drying of the
    central shoot known as “dead heart” (vegetative stage)
     Grown up plant whole panicle becomes dried “white ear” (reproductive stage)

    2. Gall midge: Orseolia oryzae

    Family: Cecidomyiidae, Order: Diptera

    Symptom of damage:

     Maggot feeds at the base of the growing shoot


     Causing formation of a tube like gall that is similar to “onion leaf” or “Silver-shoot”.
     Infested tillers produce no panicles.

    3. Leaf folder (or) leaf roller: Cnaphalocrocis mainsails / Marasmia patnalis

    Family: Crambidae, Order: Lepidoptera

    Symptom of damage:

     Leaves fold longitudinally and larvae remain inside.


     Larva scrapes the green tissues of the leaves, becomes white and dry

    4. Brown plant leafhopper: Nilaparvata lugens

    Family: Delphacidae, Order: Hemiptera

    Symptoms of damage:

     Nymphs and adults congregate at the base of the plant above the water level
     Affected plant dries up and gives a scorched appearance called “hopper burn”.
     Circular patches of drying and lodging of matured plant
     It is vector of grassy stunt, ragged stunt and wilted stunt diseases
     Ovipositional marks exposing the plant to fungal and bacterial infections
     Ragged stunt or grassy stunt virus disease plant may be observed
    5. Green leafhopper: Nephotettix virescens/ N. nigropictus

    Family: Cicadellidae, Order: Hemiptera

    Symptom of damage:

     Yellowing of leaves from tip to downwards


     Vector for the diseases viz., Rice tungro virus, rice yellow & transitory yellowing
    cause direct damage to the rice plant
     Retarded vigorous and stunted growth
     Drying up of plant due to sucking up of the leaf

    6. White backed plant hopper: Sogatella furcifera

    Family: Delphacidae, Order: Hemiptera

    Symptom of damage:

     Suck the sap and cause stunted growth


     “Hopper burn” is caused in irregular patches

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