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Note on a banana fruit-scarring beetle, Lachnopus sp., in Dominica, West Indies

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Everton Ambrose
Windward Islands Banana Growers Association (WINBAN), Research and Development Division PO Box 115, Castries, St Lucia, West Indies
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Bananas
Lachnopus
Pest damage

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Note on a banana fruit-scarring beetle, Lachnopus sp., in Dominica, West Indies. (1983). Tropical Agriculture, 60(1). https://journals.sta.uwi.edu/ojs/index.php/ta/article/view/2367
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Abstract

Damage to bananas in the field due to Lachnopus sp. is reported for the first time. Damage was also confirmed in laboratory experiments. The beetle attacks young fruit and causes scars that make the crop unsaleable.
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