Walang sangit is a potential pest which at certain times becomes an important pest of rice plants and can cause yield losses of up to 50% to 60%. Therefore, in rice cultivation, pest control is often carried out with synthetic insecticides. However, if you use synthetic insecticides to control stink bugs continuously, resistance will develop. Early monitoring and detection of resistance needs to be done so that the resistance status of a pest can be known early, because this is useful in developing resistant pest control strategies to avoid control failures.
One of the efforts to control resistant pests is to use bio-insecticides. Beaveriabassiana is a bio-insecticide that can control rice bugs in rice. To suppress the occurrence of resistance, it is necessary to conduct research on the resistance status of walang sangit to and its sensitivity to a type of rice plant in a certain area. Indonesia is the most dominant controlled by this pest
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