Insect that looks like a small fly and is found around or developing around scale insects (© Salahud din, University of Florida) Note the pear shaped body (© Salahud din, University of Florida) Scale insect found on leaves, nut and stems with a flat, clear oval cover with pale exuviae near the centre surrounded by eggs. May be found among fallen and rotten tree stumps. May be associated with excreted plant tissue and frass at the entrance of bored holes at the base of fronds.Ĭream-white grub with reddish-brown head (© Mark Schmaedick, American Samoa Community College) May look similar to Coconut rhinoceros beetle - Melanesian
Pupa with distinct adult features of a horned beetle (© Laurence Beaudoin-Ollivier, CIRAD)Ĭreamy-white grubs at different stages of growth (© Laurence Beaudoin-Ollivier, CIRAD)īlack beetle with a distinct horn on its head and orange-red hairs on its body (© Durham Field Office, US Forest Health Protection) May look similar to Coconut rhinoceros beetle - Oryctesīlack beetle with Female (top) and male (bottom) differences (© Ken Walker, PaDIL) DeFilippis, University of Florida)īlack beetle with distinct differences in horns between female (top) and male (bottom)(© Ken Walker, PaDIL) Adults show two pairs of legs (coconut mites) (© James V. Under a microscope showing a colony of worm-like insects. Some have brown to black or metallic purple on two thirds of their wings (© USDA, Idtools) Note the beetle can range in colour from yellow, orange and red. Slender beetle with metallic black-green on two thirds of its wings ( Promecotheca opacicollis). Usually found on the base of fronds within the spear leaf (© Cameron Brumley, PaDIL)Ĭreamy-white caterpillar that is flat, elongated and looks segmented (© USDA, Idtools) Life stages of Myndus taffini, a planthopper found around palms with foliar decay (© PestNet)īlack to dark red beetle. Usually seen sitting on top of fronds (© Gerald McCormack, Cook Island Biodiversity & Natural Heritage)Ĭream-yellow Larvae/caterpillar (© Gerald McCormack, Cook Island Biodiversity & Natural Heritage) A) Egg, B, C, D, E and F) immatures G) Adults (male on the left), H) Side view of adult (© Fabian Haas, ICIPE)īrown-yellow moth with reddish-brown wing markings. Usually spotted sitting on top of fronds (© Gerald McCormack, Cook Island Biodiversity & Natural Heritage)īrown moth with dark brown wing markings and white spots. Usually found on the young nuts (© Tristan Bantock and The Trustees of the Natural History Museum)ĭifferent stages of a sap feeding bug usually found on the leaves or nuts.
Insectīicoloured pennant ant tending mealybugs on breadfruit in Fakaofo, Tokelau (© Monica Gruber, Pacific Biosecurity)Īrgentine ants tending mealybugs (© Phil Lester)Īnts - often seen around mealybugs or scale insects such as:Ĭomparison of two similar coconut sap feeding insects ( Amblypelta cocophaga (L) and Pseudotheraptus wayi (R)). Click on the links under 'More information' to find out more. These are some of the insects you might see around coconuts. You are here: Home» Identification» Insects Insects
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