This document discusses the insect pest gram cutworm (Agrotis flammatra) that affects chickpea crops. It describes the taxonomy and distribution of gram cutworm, noting it is found in Pakistan, India, Australia and New Zealand but absent from some tropical and cold regions. Gram cutworm is a minor but regular pest that feeds on cereals, pulses and grasses. The document outlines the lifecycle and identifies the eggs, larvae and adults of gram cutworm. It also details the types of damage gram cutworm causes to crops and recommends cultural, mechanical and chemical controls to manage the pest.

2. TOPIC:
INSECT PESTS OF GRAM
Ehtisham Ali Hussain
BAGF15E258
University College Of Agriculture,
University Of Sargodha, Sargodha

3. CONTENTS
 Taxonomy
 Distribution
 Pest status
 Identification
 Life cycle
 Damages
 Control

4. (Chickpea )Chana Producing Countries
Countries Million Tonnes
 1. India 5.70
 2. Turkey 0.61
 3. Pakistan 0.40

5. GRAM CUTWORM
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Agrotis
Species: flammatra

6. DISTRIBUTION
 Pakistan
 India
 Australia
 New Zealand
 Absent from some tropical regions and cold
areas

7. PEST STATUS
 Minor
 Restricted
 Regular

8. HOST RANGE
 Cereal
 Pulses
 Grasses
 No of weed sp

9. IDENTIFICATION:
EGGS:
 Yellowish white

10. LARVAE:
 Dark grey in colour

11. ADULT:
 Heavy bodied
 Grayish-brown or wheat colour

12. LIFE CYCLE:
The pest is active from October to April
The moths appear in October and lay
upto 900 eggs on the under surface of
leaves, shoots,steams or in soil.
The eggs hatch in one week during
summer and in two weeks during
winter

13. LIFE CYCLE:
LARVAE Full grown in 4 to 7 weeks
PUPATE for two weeks in the soil.
The life cycle is completed in 7-11 weeks
 There are generally two Generations in
year

14. DAMAGE:
 The caterpillars come out from their
breeding places at night and become active.
 Cutting down the young plant of gram,
vegetables seedlings etc.
 Just above or slightly below the surface of
soil.
 The cutaway gram seedlings in the field are
indication of its attack

15. CONTROL:
ETL: 2 larvae /meter row
Cultural control:
 Hand hoeing
 Clean cultivation should be done
 The bait is placed in small heap in the infested field in the
evening
Mechanical control:
 Trapping the moths by light traps
 Hand picking

16. CONTROL
BIOLOGICAL CONTROL:
 The pest is control by insect predators
CHEMICAL CONTROL:
 Spray
CYPERMETHRIN+MONOCROTOPHOS EC
500ml/acre
 It is also control by using poisoned BRAN
MASH

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