Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 8.6.
Major pests of banana.
Pest
Latin name
Spread
Susceptibility
Symptoms
Banana borer/
weevil
Worldwide
No clones resistant
Burrows into rhizome, network
of tunnels, lays eggs at base of
pseudostem, adults (12 mm long) feed
on pseudostem, nocturnal
Cosmopolites
sordidus
Bunch pests
Thrips
Central America, South
America, Asia, Australia
Rust blemish to fruit skin, especially
between
fi
ngers of immature fruit
Chaetanaphothrips
spp. red rust thrip
South-east Asia, Australia,
Corky scab on developing fruit
Frankliniella
spp.
Flower thrips
Caribbean, Latin America
Scab moth
Australia, Paci
fi
c Islands
Brown scabs on developing fruit
Nacoleia octasuma
Nematodes
Burrowing
nematode
Most areas except East
Africa, Israel, Canary
AAA more tolerant
than AAB
Elongated blade, lesions on root
Radopholus similis
