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Hundreds of thousands of crop-eating caterpillar worms have surfaced in several towns, including Jenebrown, Jawajei and Jenedablo in Gola Konneh District of Grand Cape Mount County, to the detriment of crops being planted in those areas during this farming season.
Similar caterpillar worms were first reported in 2009 in Lofa County and other parts of Liberia after which a team from the Ministry of Agriculture moved in and contained the menacing insects that also caused environmental hazards including contamination of drinking water sources.
Many concerned citizens of Cape Mount including Dr. Vuyu Golakai, a native of Gola Konneh District, presented samples of the destructive worms to this paper on Monday, collected during a visit in Gola Konneh district last weekend.
Dr. Golakai is Vice President for Health Sciences and Dean of the A. M. Dogliotti College of Medicine at the University of Liberia.
Hundreds of thousands of the caterpillar worms currently in their larvae stage metamorphose into cocoons within few weeks before becoming full-grown grasshoppers that have prodigious appetite leading them to devour millions of green leaves of agricultural crops in a matter of few hours.
As these pests feed solely on fresh green leaves, farmers in Gola Konneh District have expressed fears that their food and cash crops risk being devastated by hundreds of thousands of grasshoppers that will mature from these larvae worms in a matter of weeks.
Sources said some concerned citizens from Grand Cape County have already alerted the Ministry of Agriculture about the problem for possible action.
