Prevent Harvest Failure, Here's How To Overcome Rice Leave Roller Pests

Illustration of pests in rice plants (photo: Pixabay/mufidpwt)

YOGYAKARTA Attacks on rice leaf-rolling pests can create a sense of worry. The emergence of this pest will have a considerable impact on the success of the rice harvest if the damage to the leaves in the vegetative phase (when the leaves begin to grow) and the generative phase (the growth period of rice plant reproduction begins) exceeds the threshold of more than 50 percent. So, how to deal with rice leaf-rolling pests?

Please note, the rice leaf-rolling pest is known as Fake White Pest (HPP). In Latin, this pest is Cnaphalocrostrosis medianalis.

According to the Plantix page, rice leaf folding pests appear in all rice fields and more during the rainy season.

The high humidity, shady land areas, and the presence of grassy grass and surrounding borders support the development of pests.

In addition, there are still several factors that can increase the number of rice leaf-rolling pests, such as extended rice fields with irrigation systems, planting too much rice and reappearance caused by several types of insecticides.

In the tropics, this pest is active throughout the year. Meanwhile, in a moderately climated country, the rice leaf folding pest was active in May orange October.

According to the official website of the Buleleng Regency Agriculture Service, the attack of rice leaf-rolling pests is marked by the folding of rice leaves. These multipliers are a form of damage caused by fake white pest larvae.

In addition, the attack of the rice leaf-rolling pest was also marked by the appearance of a brown yellow knife, on the front wing there were 3 flying black ribbons.

The life cycle of the HPP, aka a rice leaf-rolling pest, is 30-60 days. Larva raised the green leaf (klorophyll) network from the leaf folding so that it interfered with the photosynthetic process, the damage that occurred was the presence of white color on the leaves in the plant.

To overcome the attack of rice leaf-rolling pests, there are several things you can do, including:

That's information on how to deal with rice leaf-rolling pests. Hopefully this article can add insight to the loyal readers of VOI.ID.