Agriculture Reference
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Table 12.5.
Some important insect pests of pineapple.
Common name
Organism
Parts affects and symptoms
Region or country
Pheidole megacephala
Bigheaded ant
Associated with mealybugs and wilts
Hawaii
Ants
Solenopsis
sp.
Anaucomyrmex
sp.
Associated with mealybugs and wilts
Guyana
Diaspis bromeliae
Pineapple scale
Leaves, fruit
Universal
Souring beetle (pineapple
beetle)
Carpophilus humeralis
Plant, ripe fruit
Universal
Mealybug
Dysmicoccus brevipes
Roots, stems, leaves
Universal
Steneotarsonemus ananas
Tryon
Pineapple fruit mite
Developing in
fl
orescence, fruit and crown
Universal
Dolichotetranychus
floridanus
Banks
Pineapple red mite
Feeds on the white basal leaf tissue, especially
crown
Universal
Heteronychus arator
Black maize beetle
Lower stems and roots
South Africa
Several beetle species
White grub
Root system
South Africa
Thrips
Thrips tabaci
Yellow spot disease (virus transmitted by thrips
from
Emilia sonchifolia
)
Hawaii, other areas
