Pink borer (Sesamia inferens , Noctuidae , Lepidipteran)

• Polyphagous pest (rice, maize,w heat, and other crop)
• Out of the,m wheat is the major host

Damaging stae :- larvae

Damaging symptoms:- dead heart at the vegetative stage and white head at the reproductive stage.

Identification

• Egg:- creamy white sp herical egg
• Larvae – pinkish brown with a pink head
• Pupa:- brown in color  pupation ococcursn the stem of the plant
• Adult:- straw color forewing with dark brown longitudinal streak and hind wings are white in color.

Management

• Trichogramma chilonsis (egg parasitoid)
• Bacillus thuringenesis (dipel, biolep)@3g/l at evening hr 
• Napier grass/elephant grass as a catch crop
• Sudan grgrass–traprop
• Sliver lea (Desmodium uncinatum)-commercial legumes when intercropped with maize, repel ovipositing stem borer.