WORM GIANT FROM SUGAR CANE Telchin licus licus Drury , 1773) IN SOUTH-CENTRAL REGION : PREOCCUPATION TO THE FARMERS

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The sugar cane crop expands its borders each year, throughout the national territory. Thus, increases the amount of biomass to be exploited by man, to produce sugar and alcohol and also by other organisms, which will have food in abundance. The growth of mechanized harvesting, with the consequent decrease in the burning of straw and the expansion of the sector sucroalcooleiro are causing changes into entomofauna in certain areas or regions of canavieiras. One of the new threats to the plantations sugar cane in south-central region, causing uncertainty and concern to farmers, is the giant worm, Telchin licus licus (DRURY, 1773). This worm has always been considered pest in sugar cane crop in the North and Northeast regions of the country, and just nowadays it is a matter of concern for the region's sugarcane-South Centre. This observation is to alert the sugar cane farmers on the risk of the spread of the pest and the damage that can be generated by this specie.