Claim · #6494031
Coccus viridis · pest pressure · Coffea arabica
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“green coffee scale insect, Coccus viridis, adults, young nymph and crawlers”
- Authors
- Vandermeer J.H.
- Year
- 2009
- Page
- 233
AI critic verdicts
- entomologist · plausible
“Coccus viridis is a well-documented soft scale (Coccidae) sap-feeder on Coffea arabica, with ant mutualism (tending for honeydew) well established in the literature.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“Coccus viridis is a well-documented soft scale (Coccidae) sap-feeder on Coffea arabica, ant-tended association is ecologically consistent, and affected parts match known feeding sites.”
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