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What are the control methods for the rice water-dropwort grasshopper?
Scientific name Gesonula punctifrons (Stal), belonging to Orthoptera, Acridoidea. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Taiwan, China, Sichuan, Yunnan and other provinces and regions. Its hosts include rice, taro, lotus root, wild narcissus, sugarcane, corn and other plants. Damage characteristics: adults and nymphs chew leaves into notches or eat the leaf mesophyll leaving the epidermis; damaged leaves show small purple transverse spots, affecting photosynthesis and hindering plant growth. Morphological characteristics: female adult body length 19-22 mm, male adult
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What are the control methods for rice bacterial leaf streak?
Rice bacterial leaf streak, or rice fine stripe disease for short, is an important disease in rice production in China. Its pathogen belongs to the genus Xanthomonas, and the bacteria mostly enter through the leaf stomata; symptoms can appear at any growth stage of rice. The lesions are short, fine, narrow stripes, with the striping appearing between the leaf veins. When held against the light, the lesions appear semi-transparent and water-soaked, turning red later; the bacterial masses on the stripes are very numerous, especially on the underside of the leaf, and are not easily dislodged when dry. Because hybrid rice still lacks disease-resistant combinations, and because the disease occurs over a wide area with an uneven distribution, this creates great difficulties for seed quarantine;
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Detailed Explanation of Common Rice Diseases and Their Control Methods
Throughout the entire growth period of rice, common diseases include rice blast, bacterial leaf streak, bacterial leaf blight, sheath blight, rice false smut, and others. (1) Rice blast: It can occur from the seedling stage to the heading stage. According to the symptoms shown at different growth stages and on different parts of the plant, it can be divided into 5 types: seedling blast, leaf blast, node blast, panicle blast, and grain blast. 1. Main symptoms (1) Seedling blast: The diseased seedling turns grayish-black at the stem base near the soil surface, and the upper part turns light reddish-brown, causing the entire seedling to curl and die. (2) Leaf blast: On
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Cold damage prevention and control methods and key technical points for rice at the panicle elongation stage
Rice pollination at the panicle elongation stage greatly needs temperature and oxygen. During this period, cold winds blowing from the northeast are very likely to occur, causing poor pollination, empty and shriveled grains, and reduced yield. Prevention and control techniques for cold damage. First, accelerate rice pollination. From late July to early and mid-August, due to meteorological causes of atmospheric circulation, the temperature generally drops to around 17, causing rice flowers to remain closed and not open, affecting rice pollination and producing empty and shriveled grains. For this kind of obstructive cold damage, scientific management of the paddy field should be strengthened so that rice accelerates through the pollination period and avoids
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What to Do About the Green Leafhopper on Rice? A Detailed Guide to Effective Control Methods
Scientific name: Homoptera, Delphacidae. Distributed in the wild rice stem (Zizania latifolia) and rice-growing areas of both southern and northern China. Hosts include rice, wild rice stem, and wild Zizania latifolia. Damage characteristics: adults and nymphs pierce and suck the sap of rice; affected leaves develop yellowish-white to light brown or reddish-brown spots, after which the leaves gradually turn yellow and dry up from the tip toward the base; excrement covers the leaf surface, forming a sooty mold-like coating; the female's egg-laying scars are initially water-soaked, then secrete white downy waxy powder; once wounds appear, the plant loses water, wilting in clumps and dying off in patches. Morphological characteristics: male adult body length 5-6.1 mm,
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Identification and Control Methods of Common Rice Diseases
1. Rice blast (1) Damage characteristics: Rice blast, also known as rice fever disease, commonly called fire blast, dangling-head blast, neck-pinching blast, etc., is one of the most widespread and most damaging fungal diseases worldwide, mainly harming the aboveground parts of the host plant. Because the damage period and site differ, it can be divided into seedling blast, leaf blast, neck blast, branch blast, grain blast, etc. Its host range includes rice, wheat, crabgrass and many other grass family plants. The rice blast pathogen mainly overwinters on diseased rice straw, and in the second year spreads from the diseased straw into rice fields to infect and cause damage. Pathogen transmission mainly relies on wind
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Identification and Control Methods for the White-Winged Leafhopper in Rice
Scientific name Thaia rebiginosa Kuoh, formerly mistaken for Erythroneura subrufa (Motschulsky), belongs to the order Homoptera, family Cicadellidae. It is distributed south of the Yellow River and east of Xichang, Sichuan. Damage is severe in parts of the mountainous areas of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan and in Hanzhong, Shaanxi. Hosts include rice, wheat, barley, sugarcane, wild rice stem, corn, rapeseed and others. Damage characteristics: adults and nymphs pierce and suck leaf sap; damaged leaves first show scattered small white spots, which later join into dotted streak marks, or white streak marks that eventually
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Identification and Control Methods for the White-backed Planthopper on Rice
Hosts include rice, wild rice, corn, barley, wheat, sugarcane, sorghum, barnyard grass, and Kentucky bluegrass. The damage characteristics are the same as those of the brown planthopper. Morphological features: The macropterous male is 3.2-3.8mm long, pale yellow, with dark brown spots. The top of the head protrudes forward; on the outer side of the lateral ridges of the pronotum and mesonotum, behind the compound eyes, there is a crescent-shaped dark brown spot; the lateral areas of the mesonotum are dark brown with a yellow longitudinal band in the middle; the forewings are semi-transparent with brownish halo spots at the tips; the wing veins, face, thorax, and ventral surface of the abdomen are dark brown. The macropterous female is 4-4
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What are the control methods for dream potatoes in potatoes?
After potato sprouts emerge, if affected by low temperatures, the young sprouts swell and form small tubers called dream potatoes, commonly known as "carrying eggs." In production, farmers mistake this phenomenon for a sign of excellent seed potatoes, early maturity, and high yield, but in fact dream potatoes no longer sprout and emerge. They generally cause about 10% missing plants, seriously affecting yield and benefits. 1. Causes Potatoes can only germinate and sprout when the soil temperature is not lower than 4°C, and the young sprouts can only grow at 5-7°C. Generally, seed tubers that have been treated before sowing have already reached a temperature of about 6°C. If sowing
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Occurrence and Control Methods of the Comstock Mealybug in Pear Orchards
(1) Occurrence patterns The Comstock mealybug belongs to the order Homoptera, family Pseudococcidae. Also known as the pear mealybug, plum mealybug, and mulberry mealybug. It generally produces three generations per year, overwintering as eggs and nymphs in hidden places such as cracks in the rough bark of tree trunks, bagged diseased and pest-infested fruits scattered in the orchard, weeds around the root zone, soil clods, and fallen leaves. Adults and nymphs suck the sap of tender buds, tender shoots, and fruits. Before bagging, it mainly damages tender buds and tender shoots, causing leaves to twist, swell, and shrivel, leading to branch dieback. After bagging, it burrows into the bags to damage the fruit, gathering in the calyx depression and stem depression, secreting white wax powder, contaminating the fruit, and sucking
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