The adult rice leaffolder (Cnaphalocrocis medinalis) is a yellow-brown moth. Leaffolder caterpillars fold a rice leaf around themselves and attach the leaf margins together with silk strands. Each female lays about 300 eggs at night during its lifetime of 3-10 days.
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Prepared by G Jahn, C Pol (as part of the Cambodia-IRRI-Australia Project (CIAP) IPM Program), Cambodian DOA Office of Crop Protection and M Bell.
