Table 3. Combined data from all sites (on a per country basis) for incidence of female parasitic nematode, ectophoretic nematode dauerlarvae and ectophoretic mites

  Country of origin
PNG 2000 PNG 2001 PNG (combined) Sumatra Ghana Costa Rica
Total number of weevils disected 500 450 950 100 450 600
Number of weevil with parasitic nematodes 53 28 81 6 1 0
% infected with parasitic nematode 10.6 6.2 8.5 6.0 0.2 0.0
Total female parasitic nematodes 190 161 350 11 1 0
Mean parasitic females/infecte weevil 3.58 5.75 4.32 1.83 1.0 0.0
Mean parasitic female/weevil 0.38 0.36 0.37 0.11 0.002 0.0
Number of weevils with dauerlarvae 1 3 4 15 76 76
% with dauerlarvae 0.20 0.67 0.42 15.0 16.9 12.7
Number of weevils with ectophoretic mites 0 0 0 0 90 0
% with ectophoretic mites 0 0 0 0 20.0 0