"We can adapt this to many different agricultural crops." Researchers use innovative methods to fight back against emerging ...

The global coffee industry suffered a loss of more than $1 billion in 2023 from the coffee berry borer—a detrimental pathogen that destroys coffee berries. With early detection key, ECU researchers ...

The coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei) is an exceptional organism, because it consumes so much caffeine that it would kill any other, it is exposed to the equivalent of 500 espressos.

Detoxification is only one part of the coffee berry borer’s success. There’s also digestion. Coffee berries are 60 percent carbohydrates, and since the beetle larvae eat nothing else, they ...

The coffee berry borer (CBB) is the most destructive insect pest of coffee globally, according to a draft environmental assessment published Dec. 8. Though endemic to Central Africa, ...

HANA, MAUI (HawaiiNewsNow) - State agriculture officials reported Thursday that they had confirmed the presence of the coffee berry borer at two locations on the Hana side of Maui, in Kipahulu ...

The coffee berry borer was first detected in the state in September 2010 in Kona and discovered in Kau in May 2011. It was found on Oahu in December 2014, on Maui in Kipahulu in December 2016 and ...

Maui coffee growers are taking measures to belay the arrival of the coffee berry borer beetle that has been brewing trouble for farmers on the Big Island for years and that made its way to Oahu in ...

The first coffee berry borer, a beetle that feeds on coffee berries and reduces both the yield of quality of coffee, has been found on Kauai, the state Department of Agriculture reported today ...

The coffee berry borer laughs at your caffeine tolerance. That's because this tiny beetle, the most caffeinated creature in the world, lives entirely on the berries of the coffee plant.

The world's most devastating coffee pest can cut yields by up to 80 percent, and it survives on what would be a toxic dose of caffeine for any other insect. Some 850 insects can feed on different ...

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