Phymastichus coffea (LaSalle) is an African parasitoid of adults of the coffee berry borer Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari) that has been introduced to Mexico and other Central and South American ...

Eggs and larvae of the coffee berry borer can be seen inside a coffee bean. As the invasive pest continues to do damage to vast swaths of local farmers coffee farms, agricultural officials are ...

A coffee berry borer (lower left) sits atop a coffee bean, which is its sole source of food and shelter. The beetle thrives in the toxic, caffeine-rich bean thanks to the microbes in its gut ...