| Damages : | ||
| Deadheart | ||
| Whitehead | ||
| Management Strategies at Various Crop Growth Stages: | ||
| Crop Establishment | ||
| Vegetative (Tillering) | ||
| Reproductive (Early panicle initiation to flowering) | ||
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Use insecticide when needed.
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Do not apply insecticide when the population of parasitoids is greater than the larvae (based on egg mass collected from the field and reared in covered bottles). At this stage, egg mass population is usually low (less than one egg/sqm2) |
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Apply systematic insecticide when 1-2 egg masses are observed in every square meter in the field.
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| Ripening | ||
| Harvest and Post Harvest | ||
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Stemborer information sheet | |
| Stemborer population in Maligaya, Science City of Muñoz | ||