Claim · model-written summary
Average bug attack rate on cocoa pods was 62%.
- Taxon
- Cocoa
Theobroma cacaot0 - Organ / stage
- podse1
- Interactor
- Green and Brown Bugt0pest
- Outcome
- attack ratese1
- Value
- 62%e1
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Green and Brown Bug Attacks on Cocoa”
e1“The average attack rates were 66.66% for cherries and 62% for pods”
Title
Doh Franceline; Coulibaly Tenon; Kone Siela; et al. American Journal of BioScience 2026. doi:10.11648/j.ajbio.20261402.12
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Average bug attack rate on cocoa cherries was 66.66%.
- Observation Attacked cocoa pods aborted completely after two months.
- Observation Only fifteen of 50 attacked cocoa pods reached maturity.
- Observation The bug attacks led to a 36.38% loss in cocoa bean mass.
- Observation The authors conclude the impact of green and brown bug attacks on cocoa is very significant.
- Recommendation The authors recommend better management of these bugs to reduce their impact on cocoa production for optimal yield.