Another Coconut Pest
p. 17 · Read in the full issue
A PEST called a “stick insect” has been reported from some coconut-growing districts of Fiji.
Some infected areas are now pro ducing little copra.
The local Department of Agricul ture says that it is not a serious pest—but any pest is serious that interferes with copra production, when copra is worth £7O per ton.
The attacks of coconut pests— rhinoceros beetle, promecotheca, or a stick beetle or the rest—do not matter very much when copra is worth £4 per ton.