• Grub causes the damage.
• Circular hole on fruits and seeds of tamarind both in tree and storage.

Egg	Pupa	Larva	Adult

• Adult: Small grey coloured beetle.

Identification of the pest

• Egg - Laid singly, glued to the surface of the pod (in fields) or on grains (in stores). Fresh eggs are translucent, orange cream in colour, changing to greyish white with age.
• Grub - Fleshy, curved, creamy white in colour with black mouth parts.
• Pupa - Pupation takes place in a pupal cell prepared beneath the seed coat.  

• Brownish grey beetle with characteristic elevated ivory like spots near the middle of the dorsal side.
• It is small, short, and active with long conspicuous serrate antenna.
• Elytra do not cover the abdomen completely, which is called as pygidium.
• Adults are short lived, it is harmless and do not feed on storage produce at all