The Cocoa Pod Borer, Carmenta foraseminis (Busck) Eichlin: observations about life cycle stages and emergence index of adults

摘要

The purpose of this work is to discuss some aspects of the stages of the life cycle of the Cocoa Pod Borer, Camenta foraseminis (Busck) Eichlin. Additionally, we examined the levels of success in breeding of adults from immature stages, from infestedfruits covered with tulle bags and from infested fruits deposited in boxes covered in tulle.Observations and monitoring of harvests were made at Tamesis municipality, department of Antioquia, Colombia S.A., at Granja Agricola la Nacional (Nutresa Group). This locality is at 1040 meters above sea level, with an average temperature of 23°C and 75% relative humidity.From the larvae and pupae recovered from the injured fruits in this study, we obtained 40% adult emergence.