Pests of individual crops

(Namibia)
26 April 2003
Field crops Vegetables Fruit trees & Trees Weeds, shrubs, etc.

Select the crops to find the associated pests (or insects). 

 
Field crops
  
Common name
Scientific name
Traditional name
Pearl Millet  Pennisetum glaucum Omahangu
Sorghum  Sorghum bicolor  
Maize  Zea mays  
Cowpea  Vigna unguiculata Omakunde
Cucurbits Many species individual names 
Bambara nut   Vigna subterranea Efukwa
Cotton  Gossypium L.  
Sweet Potato  Ipomea batatas Oshikapa
Local Spinach > 14 species Ombidi

 
 
Vegetables
  
Common name
Scientific name
Traditional name
Tomato  Lycopersicon esculentum  
Cabbage  Brassica oleracea var. capitata  

 
 
Fruit trees / Trees
  
Common name
Scientific name
Traditional name
Citrus
 Citrus spp.  
Marula  Sclerocarya birrea   
Mopane
Colophospermum mopane
Omusati
Grape (wine)
 Vitis vinifera
  

 
 
Weeds, shrubs, etc
  
Common name
Scientific name
Traditional name
Devil's Thorn Tribulus terrestris  not recorded

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