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Can anyone help me with the identification of what kind of problem is it on fig fruits.

Please submit more information and pictures on where the figs are located, their age, the type of farm or holding and any other relevant …

Please send more details on the location of the specimens and in which media they were found.  

We sow some seeds last week Wednesday and they started popping on Sunday Morning and on Tuesday the germinated seedlings were standing upright and some have heads/ top cut off and it looked like they were cut or eaten by some kind of a worm or …

Hi Everyone

The pupae of this fly were seen emerging from the female abdomen of a stick insect (Graffaea crounii). The pupae emerged from an adult female that we collected in Taveuni island; the aim of our work was to detect and possibly mass …

Could anyone please help me identify the white substance on this watermelon vine? I know this is not mealy bug or cocoons of parasitioid wasps. Is this some type of fungal fruiting structures? 

Dear Pestnet friends, 

I urgently need help on this Acronita beast eating up almost everything from banana to coffee on the island of Idjwi, DR Congo. Is there anything that can instantly be done?  What type of insecticide can be safely used …

Kia orana,

Over the last year we hve found three new ladybirds on Rarotonga.

They are small (1.4 - 2.3mmBL) and all might be in the genus Scymnus, with one rather similar to S. loewii.

For ease of communication we could refer to the three as: 1. ?loewii …

Kia orana ant enthusiasts,

We recently found a large number of winged male ants. We have concluded there were in Ponerinae but are not any of our known species: Anochetus graeffei, Hypoponera punctatissimus, Hypoponera eduardi or Ponera tenuis. We …

Dear colleagues, 

I would much appreciate if someone can help identify the insect in the attached  picture. It was found on common beans in the Centrale region of Togo.   Many thanks.