Symptom of damage:
- Pink larva enters into the stem and causes dead heart symptom
- Egg: Creamy white spherical eggs laid in batches in between leaf sheaths and stem of the plant.
- Larva: Pinkish brown with a reddish brown head.
- Pupa: Brown, obtect pupa, pupates inside the stem.
- Adult: Straw coloured moth with forewings having 3 black spots and a faint brown mid-stripe with white hindwings.
| Frass on bore holes | Dead Heart | Boreholes on stem | White ear |
| Egg | Larva | Pupa | Adult |