Deepwater Rice - Yellow Stem Borer illustrations - Life Stages

Adults
Egg masses
The Scelionid wasp Telenomus which lays its eggs in the ysb eggs
Larvae
In the elongated stem internodes..	feeding without causing serious (growth-affecting) "damage"
In the apical node - note severe damage to all the terminal matter...	with the inevitable result being a whitehead
Pupa in situ, note silk tube to exit hole and nodal roots	Pupa in situ

©2000 - Brian Taylor CBiol FIBiol FRES 11, Grazingfield, Wilford, Nottingham, NG11 7FN, U.K. Visiting Academic in the Department of Life Science, University of Nottingham

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