Pink Borer

Catalogue Type

Plant Pests Catalogue

Scientific Name

Sesamia Inferens

Family

Noctuidae

Distinguishing Characters

Larvae pinkish.
Smooth cylindrical body about 25 mm ,
Moth: straw coloured with stout body

Host Crop

Maize, Rice, Sorghum, Ragi, Sugarcane, wild grasses

Order

Lepidoptera

Photo of Insect

Photo of Damaged Crop

Description

Damage in rice are dead heart in young plants and white ear.

In sorghum and maize, dead heart symptom with central shoot drying up, red mining in the midribs, windows in the leaves , shot holes on the whorl leaves and boreholes at the base of stem