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The Efficacy of Coconut Venigar As Natural Pest

This document summarizes a study on using coconut vinegar as a natural pest attractant for coffee insects. The objectives were to determine coconut vinegar's effectiveness as an attractant, identify common coffee pests, and observe trapped pest populations. Bottle traps containing different attractant formulas including coconut vinegar and a control of methyl eugenol were placed randomly in a coffee plantation. The numbers of trapped insects of each type were then counted and recorded for each treatment area. The results showed coconut vinegar trapped significantly more coffee berry borers and leaffolders than the control, demonstrating its potential as a natural insect attractant for managing coffee pests.

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The Efficacy of Coconut Venigar As Natural Pest

This document summarizes a study on using coconut vinegar as a natural pest attractant for coffee insects. The objectives were to determine coconut vinegar's effectiveness as an attractant, identify common coffee pests, and observe trapped pest populations. Bottle traps containing different attractant formulas including coconut vinegar and a control of methyl eugenol were placed randomly in a coffee plantation. The numbers of trapped insects of each type were then counted and recorded for each treatment area. The results showed coconut vinegar trapped significantly more coffee berry borers and leaffolders than the control, demonstrating its potential as a natural insect attractant for managing coffee pests.

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THE EFFICACY OF COCONUT VENIGAR AS NATURAL PEST

ATTRACTANT FOR COFFEE INSECT PEST

SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE OF LIFE AND


SCIENCES IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS
FOR CROP PROTECTION 2 APPROACHES AND PRACTICES IN PEST
MANAGEMENT

GROUP 3

HERMAN COLONGAN
JAMAICA GUTIERREZ
NEQUE DELA CRUZ
ALLYSA MAE CASTILLO
DOLPHY MANGAYAO
JABEN CATUBAY
PASCUAL CALIG-ONAN
RINA FARONES MASANGAY

MELJHON N. MANDARIAGA
INTRODUCTION

Insects play a vital role in ones garden. And some species can be beneficial but more often than
not many people consider them as pest. As farmers and gardeners try to eradicate the population of insect
to conserve their crops, sometimes, they can also unknowingly be threatening the life of their plants.
Fortunately there is a way to control the insect population without compromising the plant health ; it is by
using insect trap.

Coffee is one of the most widely consumed plantation commodities in the world and traded
globally. And the second most valuable legally traded commodity in the world, representing a significant
source income to several tropical and subtropical countries. It is the primary export of many developing
countries, and as many as 25 million farmers depend on coffee for their livelihood . It also provides
foreign exchange earnings of many developing countries. The coffee berry borer (Hypothenemos hampei)
is considered the most important insect pest and the greatest economic threat to coffee. There is growing
evidence that a global convertion from broad spectrum chemical pesticides to organic alternatives is
necessary if farming is to become more sustainable, and human environmental health are to be protected.
And natural insect attractant our relatively cheap and easy to use. Depending on whether the attractant is a
trap or a poisonous sort of bait, pest control products which contain an attractant can quickly address an
eliminate a pest infestation. Traps used in conventional farming have chemicals inside a small bottles that
attract the insects, in general either pesticides and alcohols. Coffee growers point out that traps are
inexpensive to manufacture, favour the environmental protection and reduce the costs to control that pest.

ABSTRACT

Coffee insect pests are one of the major factors which affect coffee production and quality.
Globally coffee insect pest are estimated the cause losses of crops. And the major insect pest of coffee are
white coffee stem borer (Monochamus leucanatus), coffee berry borer (Hypothenamus hampei), Antesia
bugs (Antestiopsis spp), leaf miner (Leucoptera spp), green scale (Coccus spp) and mealy bugs
(Planococcus kenyae). Minor important pests including yellow headed borer (Dirphya nigricornis), thrips
(Diarthrothrips coffeae) and berry moth (Prophants smaragdina) are reported to vary in crop losses
caused. The sustainable control measures for coffee; use of bio pesticides, traps, parasites, attractant and
biological agent. These technologies are progressively adopted by the coffee farmers in the country.

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

1. To determine the effect of coconut vinegar as natural insect attractant of coffee.


2. To identify the different insect pest of coffee.
3. To observed the numbers of trapped population of insect pest.
MATERIALS AND METHODS

This research was conducted in a coffee plantation at Marfori DOrSU farm. The activity was
started from February 6 – 14. The materials used are attractant, distilled water, alcohol, methyl eugenol,
iron wire, bottle 500 ml. Completely randomized design was used in this experiment. Three formulas of
attractant were used, which are methyl eugenol – control, and coconut vinegar mixture. The containers
was hanged in bottle traps ( 500 ml). The bottle traps were placed randomly at poles or coffee branches.

The observed variables the number of trapped, percentage of affected fruit and other insects
caught in the trap bottle. Three sample trees have determined for each treatment, one branches selected
with a position in the middle of the tree and the direction of the wind ( east, west, north and south).

RESULT AND DISCUSSION

COMMON SCIENTIFIC ORDER BENEFICIAL/PEST T1/S1 T2/S1 T2/S2


NAME NAME

1.Coffee Hyphothenemus Coleoptera Pest 0 56 31


berry borers hampei

2.Leaffolders Homona Lepidoptera Pest 0 23 27


coffearia

3.Fruit fly Drosophila Diptera Beneficial 93 0 0


melanogaster
FIGURE 1

Coffee berry borers Hyphothenemus hampei

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