
Mango mealybug
infestation and damage in Senegal
International Book Market Service Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 18. January 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
56 pages
978-620-4-41331-0 (ISBN)
Description
Rastrococcus invadens (Willams, 1986) (Homoptera, Pseudococcidae) or mealybug is an insect pest of mango and several other fruit trees including citrus. The mealybug is native to Southeast Asia and was first identified in Senegal in Dakar in 1995 (Han et al., 2007). Since then, it has been widely distributed throughout the country, especially in the two most fruit-producing areas: Casamance and Thiès. To better understand the population dynamics of Rastrococcus invadens, surveys and investigations were conducted in the regions of Thiès and natural Casamance. This work conducted between September 2015 and August 2017, consists in making an inventory of all edible host plants of the insect in order to assess the degree of infestation, damage and cost of losses. A total of 17 species of edible host plants were inventoried and classified into two groups according to the degree of infestation. However, of the four mango varieties studied (kent, keitt, séwé and bouko diékhal), damage was more pronounced on (séwé and keitt) but the cost of losses was higher on kent.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Beau Bassin
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
102 gr
ISBN-13
978-620-4-41331-0 (9786204413310)
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Persons
D. in Biologia animale con una specializzazione in genetica delle popolazioni e un master in genetica. In termini di esperienza professionale, è un insegnante di scuola secondaria (PES) dal 2014 e un insegnante occasionale all'università e negli istituti superiori di sanità dal 2015.