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- Avoid over fertilizing the field.
- Close plant spacing results in greater leaf densities that can tolerate higher hispa numbers.
- Leaf tip containing blotch mines should be destroyed.
- Manual collection and killing of beetles – hand nets.
- To prevent egg laying of the pests, the shoot tips can be cut.
- Clipping and burying shoots in the mud can reduce grub populations by 75 - 92%.
- Reduviid bug eats upon the adults.
- Spraying of methyl parathion 0.05% or Quinalphos 0.05%.
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Collect beetle using hand net and destroy |
Destroy leaf tips containing blotch mines |
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Reduviid bug feed on adult hispa |
Spray Methyl Parathion |
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