White Grub ‘Kurmula’ Holotrichia spp. an Agriculture Important Pest in India: A Review

Abstract

White grubs are the distractive, public Importance and a genuine requirement to Kharif crops become under rainfed conditions. Both the grubs and grown-ups are polyphagous and univoltine. No single control measure is powerful for their administration consequently is the lone alternative for their compelling administration in the sloping zone. Therefore, the stock of the insects joins 24 species having a place with 13 genera under 5 subfamilies. White grubs are larvae of melolonthinae (Scarabaeidae : Coleoptera) but the term includes larvae of Rutelinae, Dynastinae, Cetoniinae and other families of Scarabaeidea superfamily. The use of the compound bug spray on the banks of the stream makes the water contamination the following towns and makes the odds of obstruction improvement in bother. White grub damage typically appears as stunted, wilted, discolored, or dead seedlings and/or as gaps in rows where plants fail to emerge. White grubs prune roots and can feed on the mesocotyl causing plant death.