Symptom of damage:

• Pink larva enters into the stem and causes dead heart symptom

Frass on bore holes	Dead Heart	Boreholes on stem	White ear

• Egg: Creamy white spherical eggs laid in batches in between leaf sheaths and stem of the plant.
• Larva: Pinkish brown with a reddish brown head.
• Pupa: Brown, obtect pupa, pupates inside the stem.
• Adult: Straw coloured moth with forewings having 3 black spots and a faint brown mid-stripe with white hindwings.

Egg	Larva	Pupa	Adult

• Spray phorate 10% CG @ 1 l/ha at every 20 days interval after germination