Question

Match List I with (crops) List II (crop pests) and select the correct answer using the codes given:

	List-I (Crops)		List-II (Crop Pests)
A.	Rice	1.	Aphid
B.	Wheat	2.	Gundhi bug
C.	Sugarcane	3.	Greasy cutworm
D.	Gram	4.	Top shoot borer moth
		5.	Bollworm

• A. A - 2, B - 1, C - 4, D - 3
• B. A - 3, B - 1, C - 2, D - 4
• C. A - 2, B - 3, C - 4, D - 5
• D. A - 5, B - 4, C - 1, D - 3

Answer 1

The correct option is A A - 2, B - 1, C - 4, D - 3

• Buggy odor in the rice field during the milky stage. Obnoxious odor emanates on disturbing the bugs. They omit bad smell hence they are called Gundhi bugs.
• Aphids are small sap-sucking insects and members of the superfamily Aphidoidea. Aphids can be problematic pests in wheat. There are several species of aphids in wheat fields.
• Caterpillars are mainly found in the apical portion of canes, boring through the growing point and down the upper joints until it reaches the sappy portion of the stem.
  
• They are known as cutworms because these cut the plants and fell down to the ground either the whole plants like gram or their twigs. They are sometimes also called as surface caterpillars because their activities are mostly confined few centimeters of the surface soil. They cause damage to gram.

So, the correct answer is 'A - 2, B - 1, C - 4, D - 3'.