Sugarcane leaf hopper( Pyrilla perpusilla, Lophopidae , Hemiptera)

• Damaging stage: Nymph and Adult

Damaging symptoms:

• Suck sugary substance from sugarcane and excrete the honeydew
• The developed mold reduced symptoms of low sugar levels in plants.

Identification

• Egg::cluster on the ventral surface of the  leaf and covered with whitish fluffy
• Nymph: pale yellow color, two white prominent feather-like filament at
• Adult: straw color, prominent red eye with pointed head, wedge shape

Management

• Dusting with the nicotine dust
• Reduced N2
• Predator: rove beetle on egg of leaf
• parasitoid: Epiricrania melanoleuca @8000 -10,000 cocoon /ha.