The bore covered by gelly like excreta- small grubs in it
Below - Hybiscus plant affected by the Phassus borer
Thick burrow of the large phassus in the hybiscus stem after it was snapped there
This is further to my post on the subject earlier this year. By combing the whole area we had got about 3500 bushes which were pruned to live wood and then burnt immediately close to each location. That was done by March 3rd week. On the 4th & 5th of July '09 we have found 15 newly affected bushes. The team has again been put on it, but this time we do not have much damage as yet. However, the problem is that we have found the same borrer in a Hybiscus plant. I have put this plant under a mosquito net in the chance that we get to trap the moth to see what it looks like. I shall be grateful if someone could let me have a photograph of the moth.
I am posting some photographs taken over my visit earlier this week.
I am posting some photographs taken over my visit earlier this week.
