Siau island

This type of grasshopper is a leaf-eating insect. Because it often damages coconut plants, it has recently become a pest that often harms coconut farmers. Several years ago, around the 1980s, this insect attacked thousands of coconut trees belonging to farmers in Siau.  This condition causes farmers to experience losses because crop yields decrease significantly. This condition forced the local government at that time, through schools, to order students to look for breeding places for these insects. to collect and eradicate these insect eggs   This is intended to stop the reproduction of these insects. and it worked.