ibps-so 2016 · Question 362 of 394

A warehouse against whose stock the branch has granted a produce pledge advance has been found on inspection to be infested. The bags in the lower tiers carry cast skins and a heavy load of hairs and bristles, the grain is bored and reduced in part to powder, the infestation is concentrated in the cracks of the walls and in the stitching of the bags, and the warehouse manager reports that the insect has survived two earlier treatments and can persist in an empty godown for a long period without food. The entomologist called in identi es the insect as the khapra beetle, and the eld o cer has to record in his inspection note the class of pest to which it belongs, because the drawing power against the stock and the fumigation that the warehouse must now carry out both follow from that classi cation. The khapra beetle is a

1. APest of standing paddy in the eld
2. BPest of stored foodgrainCorrect
3. CBorer of the sugarcane stalk
4. DSoil-dwelling pest of the groundnut crop
5. ESucking pest of the tea bush