Rice bugs damage rice by sucking out the contents of developing grains from pre-flowering spikelets to soft dough stage, therefore causing unfilled or empty grains and discoloration
Rice caseworms cut off leaf tips to make leaf cases. Their feeding damage can cut leaves at right angles as with a pair of scissors
Gall midge forms a tubular gall at the base of tillers, causing elongation of leaf sheaths called onion leaf or silver shoot
Rice hispa scrapes the upper surface of leaf blades leaving only the lower epidermis
Leaffolders feed inside the folded leaf creating longitudinal white and transparent streaks on the blade
Rice skipper is considered as a minor pest in rice. Yield losses caused by their feeding damage is very rare
Feeding damage caused by thrips causes leaf curling and discoloration
The rice whorl maggot begins to infest the rice plant at transplanting. It locates rice fields by reflected sunlight from the water surface
Root aphids suck the plant to remove fluids. The feeding damage causes yellowing of leaves and stunting
Root grubs feed on roots or loss roots. This can lead to abnormal plant height, discoloration of plant, and wilting
Stem borers can destroy rice at any stage of the plant from seedling to maturity
In large numbers, zigzag leafhoppers can transmit viral diseases such as rice tungro, dwarf, and orange leaf viruses
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