Pests and Diseases Banana Fruits Horticulture

This virus is one of the worst diseases of the banana. It is spread by aphids and has no known cure.

• Banana Bunchy Top Virus - Notes on the symptoms of this disease, the conditions that banana favor its development and preventative control measures.
• Banana Diseases - Information on the diseases that may affect bananas and their pests and diseases causal agents.
• Banana Weevil Borer - Information on this pest and its life history, fruits the damage it causes, husbandry methods, trapping and fruits other means of control.
• Sigatoka Leaf Spot Diseases - Article on these diseases affecting bananas and plantains banana and the pests and diseases environmental damage that may be caused banana by the fungicide used pests and diseases to control them, with banana photographs of the black and the pests and diseases less serious banana yellow sigatoka.
• Black Sigatoka - Photographs and information on this devastating fungal disease banana of bananas, pests and diseases its appearance, occurrence and significance.
• Banana Root Borer: Cosmopolites sordidus - Illustrated information on this pest, its distribution, description, pests and diseases life cycle, biology, hosts and management.
• Panama Disease Control - Information on this disease of bananas caused by fruits the Fusarium banana wilt fungus, the different strains, the fruits symptoms and control.
• List of Banana and Plantain Diseases - From Wikipedia, a list of the bacterial, fungal and virus fruits diseases and parasitic nematodes which can attack bananas and plantains.
• Bunchy Top - Photographs and information on this viral disease of pests and diseases pests and diseases bananas, its appearance, control and significance.
• Red Palm Mite: Raoiella indica - Information from USDA on this invasive pest of coconut palms fruits and banana plants.[PDF]
• Bananas - Photograph showing leaf damage caused by black Sigatoka.

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