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Stemborer Fact Sheet

This document discusses the yellow and white rice stemborers, two major pests of rice. It provides details on the identification, damage caused, and life cycles of the stemborers. It then outlines management strategies for stemborers at different crop growth stages, including practices like synchronous planting, using resistant varieties, conserving natural enemies, and applying insecticides strategically based on pest populations. The goal is to disrupt the stemborers' continuous food supply and reproduction through cultural and chemical control practices tailored to the specific crop stage.

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Stemborer Fact Sheet

This document discusses the yellow and white rice stemborers, two major pests of rice. It provides details on the identification, damage caused, and life cycles of the stemborers. It then outlines management strategies for stemborers at different crop growth stages, including practices like synchronous planting, using resistant varieties, conserving natural enemies, and applying insecticides strategically based on pest populations. The goal is to disrupt the stemborers' continuous food supply and reproduction through cultural and chemical control practices tailored to the specific crop stage.

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YELLOW AND WHITE RICE STEMBORERS

Scientific Name: Management Strategies at Various


Yellow stemborer – Scirpophaga incertulas Crop Growth Stages:
White stemborer – Scirpophaga innotata Crop Establishment
Practice synchronous planting after a fallow
period. This will deprive stemborers of
continuous food supply, thus preventing
continued reproduction of pest.
 Plant at the right time so that the crop will
Yellow Stemborer White Stemborer be harvested before the stemborer population
peaks.
 Use resistant varieties.
Damages:  Change varieties every two to four cropping
seasons.
Deadheart (Vegetative stage)
Vegetative (Tillering)
 Central leaf whorl folds, turns brownish,
dries up and dies  Conserve natural enemies as they play an
important role in regulating stemborer
 Damaged shoots can be easily pulled by
population.
hand
 Do not apply insecticide within 40 days after
 There is stemborer damage when tillers have
planting. Plants compensate the damage
tiny holes and fecal matter
during this growth stage by producing more
 When damage occurs at early tillering stage, tillers.
plant compensates by producing additional
 Apply fertilizer properly.
tillers and yield loss is negligible
Reproductive (Early panicle initiation to
Whitehead (Reproductive Stage)
flowering)
 Damaged tillers produce panicles that are
 Use insecticide when needed.
whitish and with empty grains
 Do not apply insecticide when the population
 Whiteheads can be easily pulled out by hand
of parasitoids is greater than the larvae (based
 There is stemborer damage when tillers have on egg mass collected from the field and reared
tiny holes or fecal matter in covered bottles). At this stage, egg mass
population is usually low (less than one egg
 Egg masses laid during the reproductive
sqm2)
growth stage (panicle initiation) are critical
because whiteheads may occur and yield loss  Apply systematic insecticide when 1-2 egg
could be significant masses are observed in every square meter in
the field.
Ripening
 When whiteheads appear, there is no need
to apply insecticide.
Harvest and Post Harvest
 Rotavate the soil immediately after harvest
to kill the larvae and pupae.

Deadheart Whitehead

REFERENCES:
For further inquiries, please contact the Crop
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). 2003. Rice Knowledge Protection Division,
Bank Version 2.2., Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. PhilRice, Maligaya, Science City of Munoz 3119,
Nueva Ecija
Rice Technology Bulletin. 2007. Management of yellow and white
Tel. No. (044)456-0285, -0258, -0277 local 227
stemborers. No. 58. Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice)<
Maligaya, Science City of Munoz, Nueva Ecija, Philippines.

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