The 6 entries in Laisha's encyclopedia that attack Millet, grouped by type. Each page covers identification, life cycle, the conditions that favour it, action thresholds and integrated management.

Growing Millet? The free Millet grow guide covers the crop from sowing to harvest.

Insect pests

• Desert locustSchistocerca gregariaInsect · A large grasshopper that normally lives alone in the deserts between West Africa and India, but after good…
• Fall armywormSpodoptera frugiperdaInsect · Fall armyworm is a moth whose caterpillars eat into the funnel of young maize and other grasses, leaving…
• Spotted stem borerChilo partellusInsect · A moth whose caterpillars feed first in the whorl of young maize and sorghum, leaving rows of small holes in…

Oomycete diseases (water moulds)

• Downy mildew of pearl millet (green ear disease)Sclerospora graminicolaOomycete disease · Downy mildew is the most important disease of pearl millet, the staple cereal of the hot, dry Sahel and of…

Virus diseases

• Maize lethal necrosis (MLN)Maize chlorotic mottle virus together with a potyvirusVirus disease · Maize lethal necrosis is caused when maize is infected by maize chlorotic mottle virus together with a second…

Parasitic plants

• Striga (purple witchweed)Striga hermonthicaParasitic plant · Striga is a parasitic weed that attaches to the roots of sorghum, maize, millet and upland rice and steals…