Pest Outbreak on Vaitupu

Date de publication

mer, 25 Mai 2005, 00:00

Dernière mise à jour effectuée le

mai 24, 2005, 9:01 matin

Report Number

TUV-01/2

Pays

Tuvalu

Identité de l'organisme nuisible

Aspidiotus destructor - (ASPDDE)

Situation du signalement

Final

Hôtes

Hosts - coconuts, breadfruits, bananas, taro, frangipani, crinum lily etc

Pest Status (old values from ISPM 8 -1998 )

• Present: except in specified pest free areas

Pest Status (ISPM 8 - 2021)

• Present: except in specified pest free areas

Distribution géographique

Current situation only two islands were inffected, Nanumaga in 1994 and Vaitupu in 2004

Résumé

ON the 6th September the first sign of damage was detected. To maintain the spreading during the outbreak, the infected trees were cut or trimmed and burn. The work was voluntary as every man on the island was working. the debris transported to where it burned and bury. The deAgriculture Department still waiting for the bio-agents from the SPC.

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