Claim · model-written summary
Caterpillar borers attacking sugarcane canes during growth cause a decrease in sugar yield.
Verbatim
e0“Sugarcane is no more free from the attentions of insect-pests”
e2“The shoots are liable to attack by, at least, three kinds of caterpillar borers, which kill them outright”
e3“These borers may also attack the joints of canes during their growth and cause a decrease in the yield of sugar”
Title
SUGAR-CANE INSECTS IN SOUTH INDIA
Government Entomologist Coimbatore; RAO SAHIB RAMACHANDRA RAO Y Madras Agricultural Journal 1930. doi:10.29321/maj.10.a01480
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation White ants attack sugarcane setts, eating the joints and affecting bud germination.
- Observation Caterpillar borers attack sugarcane shoots and kill them outright.
- Observation Sugarcane leaves may be infested by sucking insects such as mealy-wings, mealy-bugs, plant-lice and leaf-hoppers.
- Observation Paddy grasshopper Hieroglyphus may invade sugarcane in some tracts and reduce the leaves to mid-ribs.
- Observation Cockchafer grubs may damage the planted sugarcane crop in some places.
- Observation Rats, squirrels and jackals carry depredations into the sugarcane crop.