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List of cacao diseases
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Like other crops cocoa can be attacked by a number of pest species including fungal diseases, insects and rodents - some of which (e.g. frosty pod rot and cocoa pod borer) have increased dramatically in geographical range and are sometimes described as "invasive species".[1]
Bacterial diseases
Fungal diseases
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Miscellaneous diseases
Insect pests
- Cocoa mirids or capsids worldwide (but especially Sahlbergella singularis and Distantiella theobroma in West Africa and Helopeltis spp. in Southeast Asia)
- Bathycoelia thalassina - West Africa
- Conopomorpha cramerella (cocoa pod borer – in Southeast Asia)
- Carmenta theobromae - C. & S. America
Nematodes, parasitic
Parasitic plants
Viral and viroid diseases
References
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