Name of Pests

Nature of damage

Control Measures

• Damage caused during the
  early seedling stage,
• larvae cut the growing points,
  causing dead-hearts;
• tillers do develop after
  the central shoot is killed
  but the yield from these
  tillers is rather poor;
• commoner in early–sown
  rabi or late-sown kharif crops

• Adjust the sowing date,
• increase the seed-rate,
• uproot and destroy infested seedlings;
• treat the seed material with Carbofuron (20:1) ;
• or apply 3% Carbofuran, 5% Disulfoton or 10% Phorate granules

• moth, dirty brownish, nocturnal,
• caterpillars feed on foliage
  and bore into the stems, causing dead-hearts;
• also tunnel the stem and
  bore into earheads.

• Plough and destroy all the stubble after harvest;
• apply 4% Endosulfan or carbaryl granules or spray 0.05% Lindane

• The insect has assumed the
  status of a serious pest
  recently;
• cosmopolitan;
• the tiny pinkish fly lays eggs
  inside the glumes and the
  larvae feed on the ovaries,
  thus preventing seed formation

• Burn the panicle residue and chaff obtained after the threshing of grain to destroy the dispausing larvae;
• adopt a uniform date of sowing, and preferably grow only one variety;
• apply 0.05% Endosulfan, 01% Carbaryl or 0.05% Lindane sprays or dusts

• Nymphs and adults suck the sap from the leaves and shoots, exude honeydew, on which a sooty mould grows, giving the leaves a black appearance and interfering with photosynthesis.

• Spray 0.02% Phosphamidon, 0.04% Diazinon Methyl-demeton or Dimethoate

• Eggs are laid in the soil 75-200 mm deep;
• Hoppers and adults feed on foliage, at times causing severe defoliation of the crop;

• Destroy eggs in the soil by deep ploughing soon after harvest;
• dust hoppers and adults with 5 and 10% BHC, respectively.

• Nymphs and adult bugs suck the sap from tender grains at the milky stage, making them chaffy ;
• commoner in southern India

• Dust the maturing earheads with 5% BHC or 4% Carbaryl,
• spray 0.1% Carbaryl (W.P)

• Nymphs and adult bugs suck the sap from the leaves and whorls which turn pale green.
• also reported as a virus vector

• Spray 0.03% Phosphamidon Dimethoate Diazinon, Monocrotophos or Methyl demeton

• Caterpillars are generally feeders;
• cut seedlings at the soil level ;
• resowing may be necessary, when the attack is severe

• Dust 10% BHC on the soil around the plants

Amsacta moorei

• General feeders,frequently causing severe defoliation;

• Dust 10% BHC;
• Undertake organized campaigns against the early-stage caterpillars

• Occur throughout the country;
• caterpillars feed on maturing grains

• Dust the maturing earheads with 5% BHC or 4% Carbaryl, or spray 0.1% Carbaryl (W.P)

• Colonies of nymphs and adults suck the sap from the undersurface of the leaves, causing reddish brown spots and patches

• Dust sulphur or spray 0.05% wettable sulphur