@article {10957,
	title = {Biology of coffee berry borer H. hampei (Ferrari) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) under laboratory conditions},
	journal = {Bioagro},
	volume = {19},
	number = {1},
	year = {2007},
	month = {ene},
	pages = {35-40},
	abstract = {The berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei) is the main insect-pest in the coffee producer countries. In this paper the biological cycle of the insect was studied in a material collected in 2004 in Andres Eloy Blanco County, Lara State, Venezuela. The study was conducted at the Entomology Laboratory of INIA-Lara, under mean temperature and relative humidity of 27.1[degree]C and 65.3 \%, respectively. The average duration of the insect phases was 4.21 days for egg, 11.15 days for larvae, 2.66 days for pre-pupa, 5.29 days for pupa, and 103,3 days for adult female. The paper also describes some morphological characteristics of each phase. The following two larval instars were found: L1, with an average width of the cephalic capsule of 0.33 mm, and L2, with 0.52 mm wide. The pre oviposition period lasted 5.1 days, the egg fertility was 99.2 \%, the fecundity was 43.0 eggs per adult female, and the sex ratio was 13.8 females per each male.},
	keywords = {Hypothenemus hampei},
	author = {Fernandez, Silvestre and Cordero, Julio}
}
@article {9055,
	title = {Testing ant predation on the coffee berry borer in shaded and sun coffee plantations in Colombia},
	journal = {Entomologia Experimentalis Et Applicata},
	volume = {124},
	number = {3},
	year = {2007},
	month = {September},
	pages = {261-267},
	abstract = {Soil-dwelling ants, many of which are generalist predators, are more diverse in shaded than in sun coffee plantations without trees. We compared ant predation on the coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in three shaded and three sun coffee plantations in Apia, Colombia, in both the wet and the dry seasons. We found that H. hampei adults exposed to ants for 5 days suffered higher removal in shaded plantations and in the wet season. In the laboratory, we observed that ants killed 74-99\% of H. hampei adults over the course of 5 days. Ants appear to be important predators of H. hampei, particularly in shaded coffee plantations and in the wet season.},
	keywords = {Hypothenemus hampei},
	isbn = {0013-8703},
	author = {Armbrecht, Inge and Gallego, Maria Cristina}
}
