{"id":17348,"date":"2023-11-24T08:40:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T03:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17348"},"modified":"2025-04-05T03:44:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T22:14:20","slug":"mythimna-separata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mythimna-separata\/","title":{"rendered":"Mythimna separata"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Mythimna separata<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a typical long-distance migratory insect, is a major,\u00a0polyphagous pest of grain crops in China and other Asian countries.<\/li>\n<li>The pest was\u00a0first reported as a sporadic pest from Tamil Nadu\u00a0during 1937 and Kerala and Odisha in 1957.<\/li>\n<li>The pest is known as the\u00a0ear head cutting caterpillar, rice ear-cutting caterpillar, or armyworm.<\/li>\n<li>It feeds on leaves and can cut off panicles from the\u00a0base of a crop plant.<\/li>\n<li>It frequently leaves the field looking like it has been grazed by cattle.<\/li>\n<li>During an outbreak, the pest multiplies in large numbers and moves in swarms from field to field, like an army, to feed and attack the crops.<\/li>\n<li>Favourable condition: An increase in\u00a0temperatures with dryness creates a favourable condition for the pest population to increase.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is a polyphagous pest?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Polyphagous insect pests are primarily agricultural pests that feed on economically important agricultural and horticultural crops of wide taxonomic diversity across the globe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Horticulture?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the branch of plant agriculture dealing with garden crops, generally fruits, vegetables, and ornamental plants. The word is derived from the Latin hortus, \u201cgarden,\u201d and colere, \u201cto cultivate.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/agriculture\/warm-temperatures-for-prolonged-periods-may-have-led-to-massive-pest-attack-in-assam-92948\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Warm temperatures for prolonged periods may have led to massive pest attacks in Assam<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mythimna separata is a typical long-distance migratory insect, and is a major, polyphagous pest of grain crops in China and other Asian countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}