List of cacao diseases

Like other crops cocoa can be attacked by a number of pest species including fungal diseases, insects and rodents - some of which (e.g. frosty pod rot and cocoa pod borer) have increased dramatically in geographical range and are sometimes described as "invasive species".

Insect pests

 * Cocoa mirids or capsids worldwide (but especially Sahlbergella singularis and Distantiella theobroma in West Africa and Helopeltis spp. in Southeast Asia)
 * Bathycoelia thalassina - West Africa
 * Conopomorpha cramerella (cocoa pod borer – in Southeast Asia)
 * Carmenta theobromae - C. & S. America