“…The rice swarming caterpillar, Spodoptera mauritia (Biosduval) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is a serious pest of rice in Telangana, Odisha and Assam in the nursery stages (Pradhan and Jotwani, 1992;Sain and Prakash, 2008;Tanwar et al, 2010;Ramaiah et al, 2018;Banu et al, 2022). This pest has a tendency to migrate in large swarms, and grazes a field like cattle and hence it is referred to as army worm (Pradhan and Jotwani, 1992).…”