Cassava crop

Cassava roots

Cassava (Manihot esculenta) crop

Cassava (Manihot esculenta)

Cassava brown leaf spot

Cassava bacterial blight (Xanthomonas campestris pv. manihotis). Angular leaf spots, sometimes with yellow haloes, rapidly expanding, leading to necrosis and leaf fall.

Variegated grasshopper (Zonocerus variegatus)

Striped mealybug (Ferrisia virgata)

Damage by the cassava green mite (Mononychellus tanajoa)

Parasitic wasp of mealybugs

Scale insect. This is not the cassava scale, but an armored scale (related species)

Eggs and larva of the cassava green mite (Mononychellus tanajoa), real size 0.2 mm.

Female of the cassava green mite (Mononychellus tanajoa), real size 0.8 mm.

Male of the cassava green mite. (Mononychellus tanajoa), real size 0.8 mm.