The list of major (that cause economic damage to this crop) insects pests of sugarcane are given below,
1. Top borer of sugarcane
The scientific name of top borer of sugarcane is Scirpophaga novella (Fabricius) with family Pyralidae and belonging to order Lepideoptera.
2. Stem borer of sugarcane
The scientific name of stem borer of sugarcane is Chilo infuscatellus (Snellen) with family Pyralidae and order Lepidoptera.
3. Root borer of sugarcane
The scientific name of root borer of sugarcane is Emmalocera depressella (Swinhoe) with family Pyralidae and belonging to order Lepidoptera.
4. Gurdaspur Borer
The scientific name of gurdaspur borer
5. Sugarcane Pyrilla
The scientific name of sugarcane pyrilla is Pyrilla perpusilla (walker) with family Lophopidae and belonging to order Homoptera.
6. Sugarcane termites
The scientific name of sugarcane termite is Odontotermes obesus (Ramber) with family Termitidae and belonging to order Isoptera.
7. Sugarcane mealy bug
The scientific name of sugarcane mealy bug is Saccharicoccus sacchari (Cockerell) with family Pseudococcidae and belonging to order Hemiptera.
8. Sugarcane Black bug
The scientific name of sugarcane black bug is cavelerious excavatus (Distant) with family Lygaeidae and belonging to order Hemiptera.
9. Sugarcane Whitefly
The scientific name of sugarcane whitefly is Aleurolobus barodensis (Maskell) with family Aleyrodidae and order Homoptera.
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