The field guide documents the community of insects that feed on rice in the tropical zone of Asia and complements the IRRI publication "Helpful insects, spiders, and pathogens: friends of the rice farmers." It covers 78 phytophagous species in 64 genera, 27 families, and 8 orders. The phytophage guild represents five groups-general defoliators, (27 species), plant suchers (25 species), early vegetative pests (11 species), soil pests (9 species), and stem borers (6 species). Stem borers and plant suckers comprise the major rice pests. A brief description of each insect's life stage and demage it does to the rice plant is presented for a quick and reliable identification.

Rice plant structure and growth stages. Insect pests of rice. Soil pests. Pests at the vegetative stage. Pests at the reproductive. Rice diseases. Weed pestes of rice. Identification and ecology of common weeds in rice. Methods of wees control. Biology and management of riceland rats in Southeast Asia. Management in Southeast Asia. Cultural control. Resistant rice varieties. Diseases races and insect biotypes. Biological control of rice insect pests. Parasistas. Predators. Pesticides. Integration of control meanures for all rice pests. Implementation of integrated pest management strategies.

The morphology and cultivation of rice; Classification, ecology and cultural control of rice pests; Pyralid stem borers: bionomics, damage and effects of insecticides; Pyralid stem borers: crambinae; Pyralid stem borers - Schoenobiinae; Phycitinae; Galleriinae, Pyraustinae and Anerastiinae; Noctuid stem borers; Cutworms, armyworms and other leaf-eating noctuids; Other leaf-eating lepidoptera; Plant bugs: hemiptera (rhynchota) heteroptera - unequal-winged bugs; Plant bugs and leaf hoppers; Coleopterous pests; Dipterous pests; Orthoptera and miscellaneous insect pests; Storage pests of paddy and rice; Protection of rice and paddy in storage; Non-insectan invertebrate pests; Vertebrate field pests.