Plant Extract as Attractant Kairomone to Cocoa Pod Borer (CPB), Conopomorpha cramerella (snellen)(Lepidoptera:Gracillariidae) in Cocoa Plantation Muhammad Agra Putra Rivay, Sylvia Sjam*, Sulaeha Tamrin, Ade Rosmana, Tamrin Abdullah, Nur Azizah Fitriyanti, Putri Dayanti
Plant Pest and disease Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Hasanuddin University, Makassar 90245, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Corresponding author: sylviasjam[at]yahoo.com.
Abstract
Cocoa pod borer is one of the important pests and is the biggest problem because it can cause damage in efforts to increase cocoa production in Southeast Asian countries. The plant extract as attractant kairomone is put in the center of the adhesive delta trap. Observations were made for two months with an interval of 3 days. Evaluation of field tests showed that the use of plant extracts as a kairomone attractant was effective for attracting female adults because no adult male populations were trapped during observation. The population of female adults was higher in plant extract leaf carrot (ELCar) with a population of 116 female adults trapped, 25 female adults on a 5 % concentration, 27 adults female on a 10 % concentration and 64 adults female on a 15% concentration. In Extract Leaf Coffee (ELCoff) there are 100 female adult trapped which 16 adults female on 5% concentration, 51 adults female on 10 concentration and 33 adult females on 15 % concentration. The high percentage of attractant in carrot extract with a concentration of 15%, namely 86%, is in the very high attractant category, while in coffee, the percentage of high attractant in the 10% concentration, namely 84 %, is in the very high category.
