These agencies include SPC and SPREP. Websites, forums, apps and blogs: online forums can put you in contact with a wider range of experts that may be able to help. Technical experts: …

Make your community aware of the ways to reduce the spread of coconut pests and diseases. Raising community awareness of potential pests and disease risks is useful in early detection, …

Practical prevention For all pests and diseases, simple and basic biosecurity actions can save a lot of time, effort and money. Most importantly, the International Guidelines for transfer of …

B Bioaccumulation: when pesticides or other chemicals buildup in the tissues of a living organism (i.e. crabs or fish or plants). This process can make the affected organism unsafe to eat. …

Pre-border biosecurity Pre-border biosecurity processes include risk analyses, (import risk and pest risk), threat assessment and risk management tools (unwanted organisms register and …

The Coconut Pests and Diseases Toolkit was developed to provide training resources for the Pacific. The project was funded by the European Union, via a grant to the Pacific Community …

CRB Trapping Tips Traps should be placed in open areas away from coconut and other palm trees to draw rhino beetles away from trees.

Salmah Yaakop1 and Shafariza Mohd Abdul Manaf2 Abstract˗ This study aims to investigate the life cycle of the bunch moth species, to analyze its DNA barcode and to identify the pattern of …

What Is It? The red palm mite (RPM), an invasive pest of coconut palms and banana plants, arrived in the Caribbean in 2004. By 2006, the pest had spread to at least nine islands, …

all possible pest control methods in a well organized and harmonious way in order to achieve long‐term pest control. It is important to understand the crop, pests, control strategies, mode of …