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PESTS OF SORGHUM :: Major Pests


 

Major pests

1.

Sorghum Shootfly

Atherigona soccata

Muscidae

Diptera

2.

Stem borer

Chilo partellus

Crambidae

Lepidoptera

3.

Pink stem borer

Sesamia inferens

Noctuidae

Lepidoptera

4

Shoot bug

Peregrinus maidis

Delphacidae

Hemiptera

5.

Earhead bug

Calocoris angustatus

Miridae

Hemiptera

6.

Sorghum midge

Contarinia sorghicola

Cecidomyiidae

Diptera

7.

Plant lice (Aphids)

Rhopalosiphum maidis, Melanaphis sacchari

Aphididae

Hemiptera