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| SUGARCANE |
PRIMARY STORAGE PEST |
INTERNAL FEEDERS |
| 1. Rice weevil |
| 2. Lesser grain borer |
| 3. Angoumois grain moth |
| 4. Pulse beetle |
| 5. Cigarette beetle |
| 6. Drug store beetle |
| 7. Tamarind Beetle |
| 8. Sweet Potato weevil |
| 9. Potato tuber moth |
| 10. Arecanut beetle |
EXTERNAL FEEDERS |
| 11. Red flour beetle |
| 12. Indian meal moth |
| 13. Fig moth or almond moth |
| 14. Rice moth |
| 15. Khapra beetle |
SECONDARY STORAGE PEST |
| 16. Saw toothed grain beetle |
| 17. Long headed flour beetle |
| 18. Flat grain beetle |
| 19. Grain lice |
| 20. Grain mite |
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| Download Notes |
STORED GRAIN :: PRIMARY STORAGE PEST :: INTERNAL FEEDERS :: POTATO TUBER MOTH
9. Potato tuber moth: Phthorimoea operculella (Gelechiidae: Lepidoptera)
Bionomics :
Larva is pale greenish. Adult is small with narrow fringed wings; forewings grey brown with dark spots and hindwings dirty white. Damage occurs both in field and storage. Tubers bored by caterpillars associated with fungal or bacterial infection
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