• Yellowing and wilting of leaves.
• Drying of entire crown.
• Affected canes come off easily when pulled.
• Cause extensive damage to roots and base of shoot.
• Affected canes shows lodging in the field.
• Damages can seen more in ratoon crop when compare to plant crop

• Egg: A female lays on an average of 27 eggs in the soil, which are pear like and enclosed in earthen cells.
• Grub: Fleshy ‘C’ shaped, whitish yellow in colour found close to the base of the clump.
• Pupa: Pupae are tan to brown, and occur deeper in the soil in earthen chambers.
• Adult: Adult beetles are a rusty-red colour just after emerging from the pupal stage, but turn nearly black.

Cultural method:

• Provide adequate irrigation.
• Deep ploughing immediately after harvesting.
• Avoid ratoon cropping
• Stagnating water for 24hrs in the field then the grub will come out from the soil

Physical method:

• Collect and destroy the adult beetles, harbouring in near by Neem, Ailanthus, and Acacia trees immediately after the summer showers using using powerful petromax lights as a mass campaign in areas near to forest and hilly regions.

Biological method:

• Apply Beauveria brongniortii @ 2.5 kg/ha (1*109 cfu/g) entopathogenic fungal formulation along with FYM at the time of planting in endemic regions.