INSECT PESTS OF SOME EXOTIC AND INDIGENOUS BROWSE SPECIES IN SOUTHEASTERN NIGERIA

During the period February to July 1992 the incidence of attacks by in sect pests on ten cultivated browse species was studied at Ohio Akpa, located in humid southeastern Nigeria. Two of the browse species Gliri cidia sepium and Leucaena leucocephala were exotic and eight Alchornia cordifolia, Baphia nitida, Rauvolfia vomitoria, Diallum guineensis, F icus capensis, Glyphaea brevis, Homalium aylmeri and Manniophytum fulv um indigenous. Forty insect pests were collected and 33 identified. Th ose identified belonged to either the order Coleoptera, Heteroptera, L epidoptera or Orthoptera. Some of the insects were browse-specific, wh ile others attacked several browse species. None of the browse species was free from insect attacks.