Rice leaf-roller

The caterpillar spins silk to fold a leaf shut and then eats inside it, leaving the leaf whitish.

One mother moth can lay around 56 eggs, and they hatch after 4 to 8 days.

Its whole life, from egg to grown-up moth, takes about five weeks.

The caterpillar changes colour as it grows, from green to yellowish green to reddish brown.

It turns into a pupa inside a folded leaf, wrapped in a thin white cocoon.