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Keywords: in 1952 rice bugs infested 8 million acres of rice fields in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, and Orissa causing about 10% loss, and in 1958 infested Bihar, West Bengal, and Uttar Pradesh. Populations build up on wild grass hosts before the main rice planting season and then transfer to rice fields, control methods consist of removing grasses, sowing early maturing varieties and sowing within a short period of time (synchronous planting to achieve synchronous flowering)