Maize

Sucking and Piercing pests with sharp Mouth Parts

Small caterpillars that feeds on seedlings/leaves and fruits They attack seedlings after transplanting and mostly found in the soil

is a slender, purple and white striped caterpillar found tunneling inside the stems of a wide variety of plants. It is a common pest of tomatoes, corn, and other plants.

Greenish to pinkish, brown or black colour, windowing on leaves, yellowish brown sawdust-like excrete inside the tassel, cob & stem, Cob browning with excrete, developing tassels on older crops destroyed