pests on millet

1. PESTS ON MILLET

2. Shoot fly - Atherigona soccata

3. Dead heart Adult fly

4. Sorghum stem borer – Chilo partellus
• Young caterpillar mine the mid
rib, cause shot holes on leaves
• Dead heart & bore holes on
stem, windows, red mining
• Larva:Yellowish brown with
brown head.
• Adult: straw colored medium
sized moth

6. Pink borer - Sesamia inferense Noctuidae
• Pinkish brown with a dark head
• Symptom : Dead heart & windowing of
leaves
• Adult: straw colored moth with white
hind wings.

7. White borer – Saluria inficita
Specific pest of Ragi
Larva: white with yellow head
Adult: Fore wings dark brown with pale
white band along the margin, hind wing
white

8. White grub- Holotrichia consanguinea

9. Root aphid – Tetraneura nigriabdominalis
•Symptom: wilting
and drying of plants
in patches.
Presence of black
ants around the
base of the plants
•Pinkish globular
aphids

10. Gram caterpillar – Helicoverpa armigera

11. Ear head caterpillar – Sitotroga cerealella

12. Web worm- Cryptoblabes gnidiella

13. Gall midge – Contarina sorghicola
Ear head bug- Calocoris angustatus

14. Ear head beetle- Cylindrothorax teunicollis

15. Ash weevil- Myllocerous maculosus

16. Leaf beetle - Monolepta singta
Flea beetle – Chaetocnema pusaenensis

17. Leaf roller- Marasmia trapezalis
Slug caterpillar - Thosea apeirens

18. Chafer beetle – Oxyacetonia versicolor Surface Grass hopper – Chrotogonus
sp

19. Aphid – Rhopalosiphum maidis White fly – Neomaskellia bergii