Claim · model-written summary
Mealy bugs were identified as major sweet orange pests.
- Taxon
- sweet orange
Citrus sinensist0 - Interactor
- mealy bugsPseudococcidaee0pest
- Outcome
- major insect pestse0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“a leaf miner, mealy bugs, brown scale insects, citrus black flies, fruit-sucking moths, and pysllids were identified as major insect pests on all range farms.”
t0“sweet orange”
Title
Jamaal Barre; Mohamed Muse; Najax Eid Archives of Agriculture and Environmental Science 2025. doi:10.26832/24566632.2025.100106
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Leaf miner was identified as a major sweet orange pest.
- Observation Brown scale insects were identified as major sweet orange pests.
- Observation Citrus black flies were identified as major sweet orange pests.
- Observation Fruit-sucking moths were identified as major sweet orange pests.
- Observation Pysllids were identified as major sweet orange pests.
- Observation Farmers ranked climate change first among perceived causes of pest incidence, with index 1.40.
- Observation Poor management practices ranked second as a perceived cause of pest incidence, index 0.41.
- Observation Lack of knowledge ranked third as a perceived cause of pest incidence, index 0.19.
- Observation Weak planting material ranked fourth as a perceived cause of pest incidence, index 0.08.
- Observation Poor soil fertility ranked fifth as a perceived cause of pest incidence, index 0.02.