Biological control of the taro planthopper, Tarophagus proserpina Kirk., in the Federal State of Micronesia
1997
Esguerra, N.M. (College of Micronesia-FSM, P.O. Box 159, Kolonia, Pohnpei 96941 (Micronesia Fs))
The planthopper, Tarophagus proserpina Kirk., has always been an important insect pest of taro Colocasia esculenta on many islands in the FSM. The introduction of egg-sucking mirid bug predator, Cyrtorhinus fulvus Knight, proved successful in controlling the planthopper on taro on main islands of Kosrae and Yap, and the outlying atolls of Nukuoro and Mwoakilloa, Pohnsei. One year after introducing the predator, the population of planthopper was reduced to a very low level and since then its population has become low in all the taro plantings on these islands and atolls
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