Ants feed on rice seeds and seedlings. Their feeding damage cause rice seeds or plants to be missing
Armyworms feed upon leaf tips or along leaf margins, whole leaves leaving only midribs
Black bugs remove the sap of the plant. They can cause browning of leaves, deadheart, and bugburn
Young caterpillars of cutworm eat the soft leaves of the rice plants. Fully grown cutworms can consume the entire plant
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
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 leafhoppers are the most common leafhoppers in rice fields and are primarily important because they spread the viral disease tungro
Young larvae of semiloopers scrape the tissues from leaf blades, while mature larvae feed on leaf edges to create notches
Larvae of green horned caterpillars feed on leaf margins and leaf blades. The feeding damage causes removal of leaf tissues and veins
Mealybugs remove plant sap by sucking, resulting to curling of leaves and wilting of plants
Mole crickets feed on seeds, tillers in mature plants, and roots. They can cut plants at the base resulting to loss of plant stand
Brown planthoppers also transmit Rice Ragged Stunt and Rice Grassy Stunt viruses.
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