Observing the devastating coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei) inside the coffee berry using microcomputed tomography
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Springer Nature
Date
2018-11-19Referencia bibliográfica
Alba-Alejandre, I., Alba-Tercedor, J., & Vega, F. E. (2018). Observing the devastating coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei) inside the coffee berry using micro-computed tomography. Scientific reports, 8(1), 17033.
Résumé
The coffee berry borer is the most devastating insect pest of coffee throughout the world. The insect
spends most of its life cycle inside the coffee berry, which makes it quite difficult to observe its
behaviour. Micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) was used to observe all developmental stages
of the coffee berry borer inside coffee berries (Coffea canephora). An interesting oviposition pattern
involving a sequential placement of eggs starting in the periphery of the seed and moving inwards was
observed. Micro-CT should be useful in elucidating unknown life history aspects of other seed-feeding
bark beetles as well as of bark and ambrosia beetles in general.