Symptom of damage:

• Adults infest the crop at milky stage
• Feeds on emerging panicle and produces chaffy grains with silky webs
• Excreta observed in infested panicle

Partially eaten fingers		Larva on plants		Webbing on finger

Identification of pest:

• Egg: Oval, shiny white in colour are fund in group covered with orange hairs
• Larva: Caterpillars are small with dark brown in colour with yellow bands and minute hairs.
• Pupa: Pupation takes place in soil
• Adult: Adults are brownish in colour. Forewings are fibrous and hindwings are yellowish in colour

Egg		Larva		Pupa		Adult

• Practice proper intercropping, sowing period, spacing, irrigation/nutrient management
• Spray malathion and carbaryl 0.1 %
• Light traps during daytime will attract the adult moth
• Pheremone trap @12/ha at flowering stage until panicle stage