major pest of rice, symptoms and their management
- Rice is one of india’s major staple food crop.
- Scientific name of rice is Oryza sativa , it comes under the grass family Poaceae.
- The inflorescence of rice is a panicle.
- Lowland Rice is a water intensive crop. It attracts a lot of sucking pests and diseases.
Major pest of rice and management
Important pests of paddy are mentioned below along with symptoms and their management practices.
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1 | Yellow Stem Borer
Scirpophaga incertulas Tryporyza incertulas | DEAD HEART
MONOPHAGOUS PEST OF RICE |
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2 | Paddy gall midge
Orseolia oryzae | Silver shoot / Onion leaf |
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3 | Brown Plant Hopper
Nilaparvata lugens | Hopper burn and grassy stunt |
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4 | Green leaf hoppper
Nephotettix nigropictus N, virescens | Transmit yellow dwarf and Tungro virus |
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5 | Case worm
Nymphula depunctalis | Leaf cases from rice leaf and cut leaf bits |
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6 | Paddy earhead bug or Gundhi bug
Leptocorisa acuta Leptocarisa oratonius | Rice grains become white and chaffy, Buggy odor in rice field at milky stage |
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7 | Rice hispa
Dicladispa armigera | Leaf scraping and mining by grubs |
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