Images
© Prasad S.K. (CPCRI). Courtesy of EcoPort (www.ecoport.org)
Coconut palm (Cocos nucifera)
© B. Loehr, icipe
Coconut palms killed by lethal disease
© B. Loehr, icipe
Lethal yellowing disease of coconut palms. Note yellow leaves and a dead palm without leaves.
© B. Loehr, icipe
Adult coconut bug on coconut bunch
© B. Loehr, icipe
Nymph of coconut bug
© B. Loehr, icipe
Coconut bug damage on mature nuts
© B. Loehr, icipe
Young nuts (nutlets) showing gummosis due to feeding by the coconuts bug
© B. Loehr, icipe
Poor nut set due to coconut bug attack
© B. Loehr, icipe
Coconut nutlets damaged by the coconut bug
© A. M. Varela, icipe
Coconut damaged by the coconut bug. Inset: adult of the coconut bug
© A. M. Varela, icipe
Weaver ants preying on nymph of coconut bug (marked by black arrow)
© A. M. Varela, icipe
Weaver ant nests on coconut palm
© A. M. Varela, icipe
Weaver ant nest on bush growing in the surroundings of a coconut plantation
© A. M. Varela, icipe
Nuts damaged by the coconut mite
© Z. Seguni, MARI, Tanzania
Rhinoceros beetle. Real size: 3.5-5 cm long
© National Coconut Development Program (NCDP), Tanzania
Grubs of the rhinoceros beetle. Grubs live and feed in dead coconut logs.
© B. Loehr, icipe
Coconut leaf showing damage by the rhinoceros beetle. Note typical V-shaped damage.
© Z. Seguni, MARI, Tanzania
Iron rods use for hooking rhinocerus beetles out of coconut palms.
© B. Loehr, icipe
Coconut scale
© A. M. Varela, icipe
Damage by the coconut mite. Note splitting of the husk due to mite attack.
© Z. Seguni, MARI
Seedling affected by dry bud rot (right).
© Chayopak Taweesak (EcoPort, www.ecoport.org)
Damage by palm weevil
© Grahame Jackson (EcoPort, www.ecoport.org)
Lethal bole rot (Marasmiellus cocophilus)
© United States National Collection of Scale Insects Photographs Archive, USDA ARS, Bugwood.org
Coconut scale (Aspidiotus destructor)
© Z. Seguni, MARI, Tanzania
African palm weevil adults (Rhynchophorus phoenicis).