Insects

Ant

Ant

Ants feed on rice seeds and seedlings. Their feeding damage cause rice seeds or plants to be missing

Armyworm

Armyworm

Armyworms feed upon leaf tips or along leaf margins, whole leaves leaving only midribs

Black bug

Black bug

Black bugs remove the sap of the plant. They can cause browning of leaves, deadheart, and bugburn

Cutworm

Cutworm

Young caterpillars of cutworm eat the soft leaves of the rice plants. Fully grown cutworms can consume the entire plant

Field cricket

Field cricket

Crickets feed on leaves by making irregular to longitudinal exit holes. They also feed on stems, seeds, roots, and on young panicles of the rice plant

Grasshopper (Short-horned) and Locust

Grasshopper (Short-horned) and Locust

Feeding damage caused by short-horned grasshoppers and oriental migratory locusts result to cut out areas on leaves and cut-off panicles. They both feed on leaf margins

Green leafhopper

Green leafhopper

Green leafhoppers are the most common leafhoppers in rice fields and are primarily important because they spread the viral disease tungro

Green semilooper

Green semilooper

Young larvae of semiloopers scrape the tissues from leaf blades, while mature larvae feed on leaf edges to create notches

Greenhorned caterpillar

Greenhorned caterpillar

Larvae of green horned caterpillars feed on leaf margins and leaf blades. The feeding damage causes removal of leaf tissues and veins

Mealy bug

Mealy bug

Mealybugs remove plant sap by sucking, resulting to curling of leaves and wilting of plants

Mole cricket

Mole cricket

Mole crickets feed on seeds, tillers in mature plants, and roots. They can cut plants at the base resulting to loss of plant stand

Planthopper

Planthopper

Brown planthoppers also transmit Rice Ragged Stunt and Rice Grassy Stunt viruses.

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