Claim · #6495660
Aspidiotus destructor · pest pressure · Cocos nucifera
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Cause distinct yellowing at feeding sites on host plant. Primary host: coconuts”
- Source
- Hawai'i Landscape Plant Pest Guide: Sucking Insects
- Authors
- Hara A., Niino-DuPonte R.
- Year
- 2015
- Publication
- UH-CTAHR Insect Pests IP-36
- Page
- 8
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Aspidiotus destructor is a well-documented primary coconut pest causing chlorotic feeding spots.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Coconut scale is a classic Diaspididae pest of Cocos nucifera causing chlorotic feeding lesions.”
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