Banana plants infected by insect see photo?

Question

HI Friends

I have around 200 plants of banana in Sri Lanka( near India) it is newly planted.I have seen plants get dammage due to one insect. Now full banana garden geting attack by that insect

Please help me to find out solution. see photos in my blog http://banana-sd.blogspot.com

Answer 1

from my guess its a relative of the cotton ball weevil and according to my findings its a banana black weevil (Cosmopolites sordidus). the site i consulted was about a research to determine the natural predators of that pest and the insecticide that can be effective to it. but unfortunately i cant get the full article. sorry for that...

Answer 2

It is a banana weevil borer.

http://www.bioversityinternational.org/p...