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    New Pest Found in Cacao in Indonesia

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    New insect associated with cacao is recently found in Kowane Selatan, Sulawesi Tenggara, Indonesia, by research team from Indonesian Biotechnology Research Institute for Estate Crops who visited the site on October 22, 2009. The impact of its association with cacao is not clearly understood. Its nymph that looks like green plant hopper but definitely larger than that of the regular one, tends to flock around fruit stalk. The insect, approximately 6 mm length, moves around quickly on the surface of cacao pod. Honey secreted by the insect seems to attract red ants.

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    New insect associated with cacao is recently found in Kowane Selatan, Sulawesi Tenggara, Indonesia, by research team from Indonesian Biotechnology Research Institute for Estate Crops who visited the site on October 22, 2009. The impact of its association with cacao is not clearly understood. Its nymph that looks like green plant hopper but definitely larger than that of the regular one, tends to flock around fruit stalk. The insect, approximately 6 mm length, moves around quickly on the surface of cacao pod. Honey secreted by the insect seems to attract red ants.

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    New insect associated with cacao is recently found in Kowane Selatan, Sulawesi Tenggara, Indonesia, by research team from Indonesian Biotechnology Research Institute for Estate Crops who visited the site on October 22, 2009. The impact of its association with cacao is not clearly understood. Its nymph that looks like green plant hopper but definitely larger than that of the regular one, tends to flock around fruit stalk. The insect, approximately 6 mm length, moves around quickly on the surface of cacao pod. Honey secreted by the insect seems to attract red ants.

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    New Pest Found in Cacao in Indonesia

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    New insect associated with cacao is recently found in Kowane Selatan, Sulawesi Tenggara, Indonesia, by research team from Indonesian Biotechnology Research Institute for Estate Crops who visited the site on October 22, 2009. The impact of its association with cacao is not clearly understood. Its nymph that looks like green plant hopper but definitely larger than that of the regular one, tends to flock around fruit stalk. The insect, approximately 6 mm length, moves around quickly on the surface of cacao pod. Honey secreted by the insect seems to attract red ants.

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    New insect associated

    with cacao is recently


    found in Kowane
    Selatan, Sulawesi
    Tenggara, Indonesia, by
    research team from
    Indonesian
    Biotechnology Research
    Institute for Estate
    Crops who visited the
    site on October 22,
    2009. The impact of
    its association with
    cacao is not clearly
    understood. Its nymph
    that looks like green
    plant hopper but
    definitely larger than
    that of the regular
    one, tend to flock
    around fruit stalk.
    The insect,
    approximately 6 mm
    length, moves around
    NEW PEST FOUND IN
    quickly on theCACAO
    surface
    of cacao pod. Honey
    secreted by the insect
    seems to attract red
    ants.
    ON OCTOBER 22, 2009
    IN SOUTH KONAWE, SOUTH
    EAST SULAWESI,
    INDONESIA
    BY: DARMONO TANIWIRYONO, ASMINI BUDIANI,
    IRMA KRESNAWATY, SUMARYONO, AND IMRON RIYADI

    Indonesian Biotechnology Research


    Institute for Estate Crops (IBRIEC)
    Jl. Taman Kencana No. 1, Bogor 16151,
    INDONESIA

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