PEST OF PALMS

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PEST OF PALMS
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WHAT ARE PESTS?

• any organisms that judge by humans as threats to
  them or to their interests
• you should know
• species name
• order and family
• stage that cause damage
• symptoms
• the control methods

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Oryctes rhinoceros

• ColeopteraScaeabaeidae
• common name rhioceerus beetle/kumbang
  badak_at_tanduk_at_tahi
• major pest of oil palm and coconut
• damage caused by adults
• eggs laid in rotting organic materials
• adults conseal during day time,evening fly to
  palms

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• bores into crown of palms
• feed on sap of soft tissue of developing shoots
  (pucuk)
• symptoms leaves emerge as typical
  fan-like-shaped (bentuk kipas)
• control
• practise good sanitation (kebersihan),so no
  breeding sites
• cover crops
• manually removed the adults
• 3 granular carbofuran

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Rhyncophorus schach

• kumbang belalai/kumbang gajah
• Curculionidae
• damage caused by larvae
• lay eggs in the shoots already damaged by kumbang
  badak
• control
• good sanitation, no rhino. beetle, no red-stripe
  weevil
• aldrin and dieldrin on the crown and trunk

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Metisa plana

• Moth Psychidae
• ulat bungkus/bagworm
• damage larvae
• female wingless
• young larvae built their own bag
• larva tebuk daun atau kikis bahagian epidermis

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• control
• spray with trichlorphon
• trunk injection

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Darna trima

• Moth Limacodidae
• nettle catterpillar
• damage larvae
• daun habis dimakan tinggal lidi
• control
• guna virus
• parasitoid Apanteles sp.
• spray cypermethrin

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