Claim · #6494930
Raoiella indica · pest pressure · Cocos nucifera
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Raoiella indica Hirs”
- Authors
- Bhagyasree S.N., Anokhe Archana, Shashank P.R., Patel C.H.
- Year
- 2022
- Publication
- Insect Predators in Pest Management (CRC Press / Taylor & Francis)
- Page
- 247
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Raoiella indica (red palm mite) is a documented invasive tenuipalpid pest expanding across palms and coconut in the Caribbean, Americas, and Asia.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Raoiella indica Hirst is a recognized high-severity pest of Cocos nucifera and other Arecaceae, well-established in acarology literature.”
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