Coffee leaves affected by insects. - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 53609 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 84.01 RUBIACEAE Coffea sp | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Coffee leaves affected by insects. | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Dominica | TDWG Region | Dominica | ||
| Parts Held | Coffee leaves affected by insects. | Geography Description | Dominica | ||
| Uses | Coffee leaves affected by insects.Use: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Imray Dr | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1875 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Leaves affected by Cemiostoma coffeellum Mann. An insect which has caused the almost entire destruction of the Coffee Plantations in Dominica. Note from Gardens Chron. p113.1875. on Coffee blight - A letter was read from Dr Imray of Domini, ca, enclosing specimens of the leaf of the coffee seriously injured by the larva of a small moth, determined by Mr McLachlan to be Cemiostoma coffeella, and which is fully described in the sixth volume of American Naturalist. Closely allied insects produ, ce disfigurement of the leaves of Laburnum, Broom, and Hawthorn in this country. ('Catch'em alive, oh!') fly-papers were recommended as a remedy. | ||||