[2] Holotrichea consanguinea is a moderately sized beetle with no horns or spines.

After it rains for the first time of the year, the beetles will come out and mate, and the female will then bury the eggs.

[2] After 7–10 days, the eggs hatch and the larvae start to eat grass and sugarcane roots.

This causes the sugarcane plant to dry up and die due to the inability to absorb water.

[2] Methods of control include flooding sugarcane fields at certain intervals to kill and displace the bug when it is in the ground, spraying fields with pesticides, manually pulling up infested plants, planting the sugarcane early so that the plants will mature earlier, and trapping and killing young larvae.