Claim · #6492494
Planococcus citri · pest pressure · Coffea arabica
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“reduces brown eye spot disease, weeds and Planococcus citri”
- Authors
- Gurr G.M., Wratten S.D., Altieri M.A.
- Year
- 2004
- Publication
- CSIRO Publishing
- Page
- 47
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Shade management reducing Planococcus citri on coffee is well-documented in Central American agroforestry literature; source quote directly names both crop and pest.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Planococcus citri is a documented mealybug pest of Coffea arabica; shade reducing mealybug pressure is biologically plausible as shade alters microclimate and ant mutualism dynamics.”
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