Pest Photo

Kira Metz, USDA APHIS PPQ, Bugwood.org

Mexican rice borer

Eoreuma loftini

Mexican rice borer (Eoreuma loftini) is an insect pest. It was first detected in Texas in 2008.

The Mexican rice borer is a devastating pest of sugarcane and a serious pest of rice.

For more information about this plant pest, see the CABI data sheet.