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Tina Geronimo, of the provincial agriculture office, told The STAR that they will monitor the presence of the coconut bug, whose scientific name is Brontispa longissima, in the province and disseminate information on how to control it.


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Coconut palms are reeling under the attack of a pest named coconut hispine (leaf) beetle. As of last count, 38 coconut trees along Roxas Boulevard have been infested by the pest, which is known in the science world as Brontispa longissima Gentro.


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The beetle is endemic to Sulawesi (Indonesia) and Papua New Guinea and spread in the late 1990s to Southeast Asia and Maldives.


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Tina Geronimo, of the provincial agriculture office, told The STAR that they will monitor the presence of the coconut bug, whose scientific name is Brontispa longissima, in the province and disseminate information on how to control it.


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Bulacan girding for ‘bio-control’ of coconut bugs

By Dino Balabo | July 23, 2006 - 12:00am

MALOLOS CITY — Local agriculture officials are girding for a provincewide "bio-control" to prevent the spread of the coconut leaf beetle first detected in Manila’s Baywalk area last year. Tina...

Nation

New pest attacking coconuts across Luzon

By Rudy Fernandez | March 6, 2006 - 12:00am

Some of the coconut trees along Manila’s famous Roxas Boulevard are wilting. And if they are not saved from a new pest now attacking them and tens of thousands of palms across Luzon, they will eventually die. Coconut...

Nation

New coconut pest reaches RP shores

February 26, 2006 - 12:00am

A destructive coconut pest believed to have reached Philippines shores about two years ago is now posing a threat to the country’s palm sector. Named coconut hispine beetle (scientific name: Brontispa longissima...

Agriculture