Menos escarabajos dañinos en frijol y caupí en cultivo asociado con banano en Costa Rica

Abstract

Pest beetles were sampled with a sweep net from beans and cowpeas growing in monoculture plots and in polyculture plots with banana in Costa Rica. There were approximately three times as many Diabrotica balteada and Cerotoma ruficornis. Rogersi on beans and cowpeas in monecultures than polycultures. Such large differences might account for some of the benefits of legume interplanting.