Sugarcane Early Shoot Borer is one of the damaging borer pest In sugarcane. It attacks on shoots in early stage of crop. Major damage seen from 1st month to 5th month of crop growing stage. Larva feeds in between shoot internodes. This pest can damage up to 10-15% in initial stage of crop. Dead hart shoots appears after pest infestation. Green Revolution’s Sugarcane ESB lure with Funnel trap help us to manage this pest, with minimum damages.

Attracting Insect Species: Sugarcane Early Shoot Borer Borer (Chilo infuscatellus)

Suitable trap: Funnel trap

Host crops: Sugarcane

Life Cycle:

Early Shoot borer (Chilo infuscatellus) as name indicates cause much damage in the early season (during summer). Eggs are laid in cluster on the underside of lower leaves. Freshly laid eggs are transparent which later turn creamy white and are glued firmly on the surface of the leaf. Newly hatched larva wanders about a few hours and reach the base of the stem by crawling or hanging by a silken thread. The larva generally enters in between the first leaf sheath and stem and feeds on the soft inner tissues of the sheath like a leaf miner for a few days. After that, the larvae bore into stalk and kill the growing point. Early shoot borer attacks the young shoots of 4-10 weeks and produce dead heart symptoms. On pulling, these dead-hearts come out easily. The base of the dead heart gets rotten and emits offensive smell. The shoot-borer caterpillar is migratory in habit and, after killing one shoot, it migrates to another. A single caterpillar may destroy three or four shoots before it pupates. Shoot borer infestation is high during pre-monsoon period (April – June) when ambient temperature remains usually high with low relative humidity. Borer activity decreases appreciably with the onset of monsoon. It is five striped borer like stalk borer but its prolegs have incomplete crochets arrangement.

Pest Identification:

Egg: Flat – scale like eggs are laid in 3-5 rows on the lower surface of leaves in masses of 4-100. The masses are slightly overlapping like tiles.

Larva: Larva is dirty white with five dark violet longitudinal stripes and dark brown head.

Pupa: Pupation takes within the tunnel. Caterpillar before pupating makes a large exit hole in the stem and blocks the opening with silken discs.

Adult: Pale greyish brown moth with black dots near the coastal margin of the forewings and with white hind wings.

Damage:  

Attacks the crop during the early part of cane growth, before internode formation. It also attacks the cane stalks in the years of scanty rainfall. Causes heavy yield losses as it affects the plant stand/unit area. It also leads to canes of different age, which will be poor in juice quality, with less cane weight. When borer infects cane stalks, both yield and quality are reduced.

Technology:

Insect Sex Pheromone Technology. It is the process of attraction and trapping the insect pest of specific Species those damage to crops.

Per Acre Use: 

Funnel trap with Sugarcane ESB Lure lure at 10/acre for better management.

Benefits:

Economically Affordable, easy to install and manage.

If used properly can detect low numbers of insects.

Collect only Species Specific

Non toxic.

Suitable for all season.

Pheromone Lures are species specific.

Reduce the use of harmful pesticide, encourages doing organic farming.

Features:

Pheromone used 99% pure.

99.9% Effective from other commercial product.

Lure working day in field life 30- 45days, Depend on weather conditions.

Packing signal unit in anti smell realizing pouch.

Dispenser - Septa

Lure can stay for one year without removing from packing.

Precaution: 

Please use hand gloves /Keep clean hand for handling lure.

Hang trap 1 to1.5 feet above crop canopy.   

Avoid direct contact of lure with other chemical. 

How to use: