Crickets and their feeding damage (IRRI)

Crickets or gryllid Euscyrtus concinnus (de Haan) Symptoms

Irregular to longitudinal exit holes Cutting of central portions of the leaf blades leaving only the midrib Deadheart

Crickets are defoliators. They can be numerous at times and can totally infest the crop, especially the young rice panicles. ___________________________________________________________________________________________

Adult moth (IRRI) Cutworm larva (IRRI)

Common cutworm

Spodoptera litura (Fabricius) Symptoms

Seedlings cut at bases Leaf surfaces skeletonized Entire plants devoured

The cutworm is polyphagous and may become serious during the seedling stage, especially in upland rice. _________________________________________________________________________________________

Larva creating notches (IRRI)

Green semilooper Naranga aenescens (Moore) Symptoms

Leaves scraped exposing the lower epidermis Leaf edges damaged

Larval scrapings (IRRI)

Larva of greenhormed caterpillar (IRRI)

Greenhorned caterpillar Melanitis leda ismene Cramer, Mycalesis sp. Symptoms

Leaf margins and leaf tips devoured Leaf tissues and veins removed

The greenhorned caterpillars are minor pests of rice. Their potential severity is generally too low to cause yield loss. Natural enemies usually control their populations and rice compensate from the feeding damage of greenhorned caterpillars. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Rice mealybug Brevennia rehi (Lindinger) The rice mealybug causes heavy losses to crops in Bangladesh, India, and Thailand. High density (> 100 mealybugs/hill) caused plants to wilt and die. __________________________________________________________________________________ Mole cricket Gryllotalpa orientalis Burmeister Mole crickets are polyphagous. They feed on the underground parts of almost all-upland crops. They occasionally become sufficiently abundant to cause heavy damage to roots and basal parts of rice plants growing in raised nursery beds or upland conditions. In wetland rice, infestation occurs when there is no standing water. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Rice whorl maggot Hydrellia philippina Ferino

Rice Root Aphid Tetraneura nigriabdominalis (Sasaki) Rice root aphids are minor pests of rice. They are seldom widespread within a field. ____________________________________________________________________________________