Claim · model-written summary
Spraying the palm base to kill ants has shown promise for controlling coconut nutfall.
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e0“Spraying the base of the palm to kill ants, and inter-planting with soursop trees to encourage O. smaragdina has shown promise in controlling nutfall.”
Title
Premature Coconut Nutfall and Amblypelta cocophaga China (Hemiptera, Coreidae) in Solomon Islands
R. Macfarlane Plant Health Cases 2024. doi:10.1079/planthealthcases.2024.0016
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Mechanism Amblypelta cocophaga China causes premature coconut nutfall.
- Observation Several Amblypelta species occur across Melanesia, Northern Australia, and Indonesia.
- Association Amblypelta cocophaga cocophaga is associated with severe premature coconut nutfall.
- Association Amblypelta cocophaga malaitensis is associated with severe premature coconut nutfall.
- Observation Reports placing A. cocophaga in Fiji and Singapore are erroneous.
- Observation Oecophylla smaragdina is antagonistic to A. cocophaga in the context of coconut nutfall.
- Observation Anoploleplis gracilipes is antagonistic to A. cocophaga in the context of coconut nutfall.
- Observation Pheidole megacephala is not antagonistic to A. cocophaga.
- Observation Philidris myrmecodiae is not antagonistic to A. cocophaga.
- Intervention effect Interplanting with soursop trees to encourage O. smaragdina has shown promise for controlling coconut nutfall.
- Observation Wasmannia auropunctata has stopped premature coconut nutfall.
- Observation Premature coconut nutfall is currently hard to find.
- Recommendation Preventing organism movement into new areas is recommended as the most effective biosecurity tool.