Coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei, Scolytidae, Coleoptera)

Damaging stage: grub

Damaging symptoms: a small, round hole in the Navel region of the developed berry. Grub tunnel in berry, feed on bean, and damage endosperm and tender berry drop.

Identification

• Egg: laying egg on tunnel
• Grub: brown gray color
• Pupa: inside berry
• Adult: Small, black beetle with a subcylindrical body covered with their hair.

Management

• Maintain shade and proper training of
• Dry berries to the following MC%

Parchment: 10%, Arabic cherry: 10.5%, Robusta cherry: 11%

• Spray Muscardian fungus, Beauveria
• Seed is transported after through disinfection.