Plant Pests

Plant Pests

• Gundhi bug - Leptocorisa varicornis - rice bug
• Sugar cane or corn borer - Chilo - larva of this moth bores into stem.
• Stem borer - Agrotis, Pyrilla perpusilla - larva bores into stem of sugarcane, wheat,millets etc.
• Gram borer - Heliotis - larva as borer in gram plants.
• Lahi (bugs) - Aphids (Aphis) - on cruciferous and papillionaceae family plants.
• Red cotton bug - Dysdercus - on cotton plant, Ladies finger etc.

Stored Grain Pests

• Weevil - Sitophilus, - on wheat maize
• Khapra beetle - On pulses
• Flour beetle - Tribolium - on wheat dehusked rice

Locusts (Schistocerca migratoria) : The leaf hoppers, destroy the standing crops. They migrate in large groups from continent to continent, cover area of few km.