The 17 entries in Laisha's encyclopedia that attack Rice, grouped by type. Each page covers identification, life cycle, the conditions that favour it, action thresholds and integrated management.

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Insect pests

• Asian rice gall midgeOrseolia oryzaeInsect · The rice gall midge is a tiny fly whose maggot crawls into the growing point of a rice tiller and turns it…
• Brown planthopperNilaparvata lugensInsect · A small brown sap-sucking insect that lives at the base of rice plants, often unseen until patches of the…
• Fall armywormSpodoptera frugiperdaInsect · Fall armyworm is a moth whose caterpillars eat into the funnel of young maize and other grasses, leaving…
• Maize weevilSitophilus zeamaisInsect · A small brown weevil with a long snout whose larvae grow hidden inside individual grains of stored maize,…
• Rice leaf folderCnaphalocrocis medinalisInsect · The rice leaf folder's caterpillar rolls a rice leaf lengthwise into a tube with silk and feeds inside,…
• Spotted stem borerChilo partellusInsect · A moth whose caterpillars feed first in the whorl of young maize and sorghum, leaving rows of small holes in…
• Whitebacked planthopperSogatella furciferaInsect · A small planthopper with a white stripe down its back that sucks sap from rice plants. It migrates long…
• Yellow stem borer (rice)Scirpophaga incertulasInsect · The most important stem borer of rice in South and Southeast Asia. Its caterpillars tunnel inside rice stems:…

Snails and slugs

• Golden apple snail (channeled apple snail)Pomacea canaliculataMollusc · A large freshwater snail from South America that was brought to Asia in the 1980s as food and escaped into…

Fungal diseases

• Brown spot of riceBipolaris oryzaeFungal disease · Brown spot covers rice leaves and grains with oval brown spots with grey centres. It is a disease of poor and…
• False smut of riceUstilaginoidea virensFungal disease · False smut turns individual rice grains into velvety balls of spores, first orange-yellow and later…
• Rice blastPyricularia oryzaeFungal disease · Rice blast is the most important disease of rice worldwide. The fungus makes diamond-shaped grey lesions on…
• Sheath blight of riceRhizoctonia solani AG1-IAFungal disease · Sheath blight is the second most important disease of rice after blast in many regions. Oval grey-green…

Bacterial diseases

• Bacterial leaf blight of riceXanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzaeBacterial disease · Bacterial leaf blight is one of the most serious diseases of irrigated and rainfed lowland rice in Asia and…

Virus diseases

• Rice tungro diseaseRice tungro bacilliform virus and rice tungro spherical virusVirus disease · Tungro is the most destructive virus disease of rice in South and Southeast Asia. Infected plants are…

Weeds

• Barnyard grassEchinochloa crus-galliWeed · Barnyard grass is the most damaging weed of rice in the world and a serious weed of maize, soybean, cotton…

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…