Sugarcane early shoot borer (Chilo infuscatellus, Pyralidae, Lepidoptera)

Damaging stage: larva

Damaging symptoms:

• Dead heart
• Easily pulled
• Pinhole near the ground.
• Damage early stage of sugarcane.

Identification

• Egg: The white, ventral surface of
• Larva: dirty white, 5 longitudinal stripes
• Pupa: inside the
• Adult: straw color, black or brown patches distributed forewings, concentrated of the spot is higher in forewings with a pointed head. Hindwings are white and lighter.

Management

• Ratooning practice should be discouraged.
• Uprooting, field sanitation, crop
• Light
• Trichogramma chilonis @50000/ha
• Release tachinid parasitoid: Sturmiopsis inferens @ 125 gravid
• Granulosis virus @500lit/ha
• Intercropped with Whatcha, green gram, black
• Chlorpyrifos 1kg/ha.