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INSECT PEST OF PALM: COCONUT, OIL & DATE

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1 INSECT PEST OF PALM: COCONUT, OIL & DATE
INSECT PEST OF PALM: COCONUT, OIL & DATE. (i) Rhinocerous beetles - Oryctes spp. - Rhinocerous beetles are active at night and bore into the young fronds in the top of palms. Female beetles lay up to 150eggs in the trunks of dead palms or living plants (O. monoceros). Other insect pests of palms are: Palm - weevil Rhycophorus phoenicis; Leaf miner - Coelanomenodera elaidis (Maulik); Mole cricket - Gryllotalpa Africana; variegated locust - Zonocerus variegatus; Leaf weevils - Temnoschoita quadripustulata (F).


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