The southern green stink bug (Nezara viridula) has one of the widest host ranges of any insect pest. Not surprisingly then, it is occasionally a pest of rice.

This video will teach you how to scout for the panicle rice mite in a rice field.

The adult rice water weevil is small (about 1/8 inch or 3mm long). It resembles the cotton boll weevil and other snout beetles.

Both nymphs and adults cause damage by feeding with their piercing mouthparts.

Rice stink bugs (Oebalus pugnax) are the most important insect pest of headed rice in Louisiana.

This 2008 guide was compiled by LSU AgCenter experts and includes regulations, precautions and suggestions for pest control in Louisiana. Detailed topics include drift of pesticides, hazards of pesticides to beneficial insects and wildlife, phytotoxicity and using beneficial insects to control pest populations. A section on organic gardening also is included.

This article will provide a description, lifecycle, and damage to the crop caused by the rice stink bug. As well as recommendations for prevention and control.

This page provides a description of the lifecycle, damage to crop, and how to prevent and manage the rice leafminer in rice.

On April 23rd Dr. Ronnie Levy and I scouted a field in Acadia Parish and found it to be heavily infested with first instar chinch bug nymphs and shield bugs. This article includes pictures of the infestation and describes recommendations for control.

Photographs of various stages in the life cycle and type of damage associated with the sugarcane borer in rice.

This large (about 1 cm long) billbug or snout beetle is an occasional pest of rice in Louisiana.

The panicle rice mite (PRM) is considered the most destructive mite pest affecting rice culture around the world. Description, Life Cycle, Host Plant Range, Monitoring and Control included.

Identification and scouting information for rice water weevil, rice stink bugs, panicle rice mites, rice leafminer and rice stem borers.

Article that provides instructions of how to prevent and treat insects infesting stored rice.

The panicle rice mite is a pest of commercial rice, Oryza sativa L., and also completes its development on the invasive plant Oryza latifolia Desv. During the summer of 2007, breeding facility greenhouses and fields in Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and New York were found to be infested by PRM.

(Radio News 10/01/07) Researchers are trying to learn more about a new pest found in Louisiana rice earlier this summer. The panicle rice mite feeds on the leaf sheath and developing grain panicles of the rice plant. (Runtime: 60 seconds)

(Radio News 10/01/07) Cultural practices may be a grower’s best defense against the panicle rice mite explains LSU AgCenter rice entomologist Dr. Natalie Hummel. (Runtime: 60 seconds)

Both adult and nymph chinch bugs will feed on rice.

A tiny pest called the “panicle rice mite” has been found in the southern United States, including the LSU AgCenter’s Rice Research Station at Crowley.

A series of PowerPoint slides illustrating the biology, life cycle of the rice stink bug and the injury it causes to rice.

A series of PowerPoint images illustrating the identifying characteristcs of the European corn borer, the rice stalk borer and the sugarcane borer in rice.