Paddy Gall Midge

Paddy Pests

Gall Midge

• Maggot feeds at the base of the growing shoot
• Feeding causes formation of a tube like gall that is similar to “onion leaf” or “Silver-shoot”.
• Infested tillers produce no panicles

• Egg: The fly lays elongate, cylindrical, shinning white or red or pinkish eggs singly or in clusters (2-6) at the base of the leaves.
• Maggot: Maggot is 1 mm long after hatching with pointed anterior end. It creeps down the sheath and enters the growing bud. An oval chamber is formed round the site of feeding.
• Pupa: At the time of emergence the pupa wriggles up the tube with the help of antennal horn to the tip of the silver shoot and projects half way out.
• Adult: Fly is yellowish brown or orange and mosquito like. The male is ash grey in colour. Adults feed on dewdrops.

• ETL: 10% silver shoots

  • Release Platygaster oryzae parasitised galls at 1/10 sq.m on 10 days after transplanting (DAT)
  • Harvest the crop and plough immediately
  • Remove the alternate hosts and adopt early planting
  • Optimum recommendation of potash fertilizer
  • Setup infra red light trap and monitor the adult flies
• Spray any following insecticides

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